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...Under the O.P., racial profiling was abhorred, officially at least. Now racial profiling of male air travelers from the Middle East seems an inevitable piece of common sense; it is no longer a matter of pulling people over merely for Driving While Black. After Sept. 11, I was a guest on an African-American radio show in Detroit. Almost every one of the callers wanted to ship Detroit's entire Muslim community back to the countries they came from. The New Paradigm goes in for abusive political incorrectness that would have been censured under the Old Paradigm. The New Paradigm...
...Wittgenstein was both a philosopher of towering importance and the scion of one of the wealthiest and most influential families in Europe. He was also a scarily intense guy. On Oct. 25, 1946, he attended a Cambridge University discussion group at which Karl Popper, another major thinker, was the guest speaker. The evening ended in bedlam when Wittgenstein threatened Popper with a poker...
Crimson freshman forward Sarah Holbrook scored two minutes later to bring Harvard within one, but the Bulldogs regained a two-goal lead with seven minutes remaining in the first period on a goal by defenseman Tricia Guest...
Last week, two guest lecturers addressed the class. The first delivered a balanced account of the conflict: She identified the mistakes and virtues of both sides and called upon Israel and Palestine to make various concessions to one another...
...second guest spit venom at the state of Israel. He denounced the country and accused its citizens of perpetuating the longest colony of the modern era. Whereas the first speaker made recommendations to both sides for eventual peace, the second warned that only when the colonizers “pull back” would the violence come to an end. (Two notes of relative importance about him: First, he unfortunately neglected to specify to where, exactly, the Israelis were meant to retreat. And second, before beginning he made sure that the tape of the lecture would not fall into...