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...Hann, professor of medicine at the Jefferson Medical College, however the other side of the argument. "You hard working, intelligent Chinese as a trademark to get and companies may prefer Chines...
This confusion is typical of the modern debate about free speech in the university. As in the case of Douglas Hann at Brown University, with whom Jeffries has been unfairly compared, there is a fundamental misunderstanding of the distinction between speech and action...
...Hann was permanently expelled last year for violating Brown's hate speech code, which prohibited "demeaning actions" directed against "a group or class of persons" based on their "race, religion, or sexual orientation." Hann's shouted racist and anti-semitic epithets outside a dorm. In this case, holding and expressing such opinions were considered actions and wrongly disciplined as such. In the cases of Jeffries and the Yale student, their illegal actions are being treated as nothing more than expressions of opinions. The reasoning in both cases is flawed...
What she told the actors is a collegial secret, except for her instructions to young Adam Hann-Byrd. "Adam is a very realistic kid, very aware," she says. "I wouldn't know how to direct a kid to be that way. So I'd load him up with a lot of technical things -- kids usually connect with the technical -- and then he would just relax. Or I'd say, 'Make your eyebrows like you're scared,' and that would make him a little nervous. And then I'd get what I wanted...
...promise not to reprint this quote 20 years from now in a cover story on Adam Hann-Byrd, world-famed entomologist. But chances are good that Adam, who doesn't plan a lifelong career as a little-boy actor, will evade the ravages of celebrity. Whether he wants to or not. Most people go through graceful, productive phases, and they pass with the same inexorability as the awkward ones. Not many people shine in or on every stage. Not many people are Jodie Foster...