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...February 18, Bridget L. Kerrigan '92--an outspoken conservative voice on campus--hung a confederate flag from her Kirkland House window. It wasn't the first time Kerrigan had made a public display of her pride in Dixie. Last year, after transferring to Harvard from the University of Virginia, she draped her banner from her Peabody Terrace window...
...when Jacinda T. Townsend '92 taped a black swastika to her Cabot House window in response to the whole affair, she upped the ante touching a raw nerve, particularly in the Jewish community. Almost too coincidentally, the controversial flags were hung just as parents of juniors were arriving for a weekend of University-sponsored activities...
...take it down not because I no longer believe that a little offense now will help create a better environment for future Harvard students. Unlike those who hung the Confederate flag, I myself was offended by my flag as one whose ancestors Hitler certainly would not have embraced and, indeed, would have slaughtered en mass had we been a little more accessible. I looked beyond the hurt, however, to something more important...
...STAFF is right--the Confederate flag and swastika are insensitive symbols that offend many students. The staff is right--the insensitive buffoons who hung them should take them down. The staff is right--Harvard should not force them...
...Security Council was debating a resolution that would establish a deadline for an Iraqi withdrawal. In an interview in the New York Times, I proposed postponing the adoption of that resolution. The draft of such a resolution could have been meaningful if the possibility of its adoption had been hung like the Sword of Damocles over Iraq. However, it seemed to me that if such a resolution became a reality, then the field for action would be narrowed. And I was firmly convinced that psychologically, for Saddam, the adoption of such a resolution would be counterproductive...