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...editorial last Friday attacked Columbia University's decision to hire Henry Kissinger by arguing that Kissinger held immoral and undemocratic political points of view. Once again, the Crimson has joined the assault against intellectual freedom in academic communities...
...That leaves as the only general tax break for business the so-called jobs credit-a provision that the Administration is unhappy with, for good reason. Under this regulation, for the next two years most corporations would get a tax savings of $1,092 for each new worker they hire after their payroll has grown 2% from the previous year. The credit can be used only by companies that are expanding, and the maximum benefit to any one company is $100,000; thus the credit is of little use to the biggest companies that hire the most workers. Indeed...
...They came from all over New England and the United States. And they came prepared to go to prison for their beliefs. One leader said last week, "I've lived on the seacoast all my life, so I've been involved all my life... If someone wouldn't hire me because of my arrests at Seabrook, I wouldn't want to work for them anyway...
That someone with such blatant disregard for human life and democratic procedure could teach political science would be laughable if it were not so tragic. Columbia's use of the academic freedom argument to defend its desire to hire Kissinger is a hypocritical perversion of a worthwhile ideal; Columbia administrators should listen to the students and faculty members there who have protested the university's offer and withdraw its offer to Kissinger...
...probably have less to do with biblical quotes than with Bryant's charge that gays are a danger to Miami's youth. Says she: "They do much of their recruiting among children." Her basic fear, she claims, is that religious and private schools will be forced to hire homosexual teachers. At week's end Bryant and her group were hardly clear favorites of the electorate: a poll published in the Miami Herald showed 42% in favor of the gay rights ordinance, 33% opposed, with the rest undecided...