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...which, for a week or so, they were--and that there is still gratitude for their presence now--which is more debatable. In a society that has been as repressed as Iraq's for 50 years, true popular sentiment is hard to judge. Iraq is still getting used to freedom and its boundless possibilities. After the war was over, many stores in Baghdad did not take up their shutters, though it was safe for them to do so. "We're waiting for someone to tell us to open," said an elderly shopkeeper. But whatever horrors they have suffered, Iraq...
...speech issues for more than ten years, and is particularly interested in why censorship remains such an attractive solution to social unrest, and what actions can be taken to address these issues. Her book profiles twenty people from all walks of life who refused to let their right of freedom of speech be taken from them. 3 p.m. Free. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave., Cambridge...
...Larry Flynt is running late. The publisher of Hustler magazine and Democratic candidate in the California gubernatorial recall was supposed to arrive at Sanders Theatre between 7:30 and 8 this Monday for his speech on the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) College Freedom Tour, but all his publicist knows is that he’s on his way. Standing outside Sanders on a brisk, blowy night, an ACLU rep is chatting with a pair of Harvard police officers about the belated guest of honor. “He’s been through...
...While his characterization of radical feminists as a group whose “only claim to fame has been to urge a bunch of ugly women to march” drew boos and hisses from the Sanders crowd, the students generally applauded his defense of unlimited speech and sexual freedom...
...Harvard, pleasure feminism was huge,” she says. “The idea that you could enjoy sex or even make porn and still be a feminist—that’s what I graduated with my degree in.” In this atmosphere of freedom, Bezreh was already expressing her desire to create an erotic short. In the March 16, 1995 issue of FM, Bezreh prophesized that “The Naughty Garden” would happen. “I want to make my own pornography,” she said...