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Student protesters have every right to dispute the claims of Horowitz's advertisement, and newspapers have the right to reject the ad's publication if they think it is factually or morally incorrect. They may well be right; certainly there are arguments to make against Horowitz's position...
...important and obvious distinction between condemning a person's words and punishing that person for saying them. One of the bedrock principles of democracy is that people have the right to say what they think, even if other people don't like it. Even if it is--gasp--politically incorrect. In our effort to make everybody think nice things about everybody else, we often forget the paramount importance of allowing people to voice opinions that offend us. The fact that we do so is perhaps the greatest threat to free speech in America today. This threat is far more pernicious...
Your item about Russell Crowe's song Wendy [PEOPLE, Feb. 19] was laughably incorrect and old news to fans of his band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts. The song was written in 1995, well before Crowe met Meg Ryan, so there is no way it could be about his relationship with her as you implied. Maybe next time you'll do a little more groundwork. CHARLOTTE OSMAN New York City...
...section of the Empire State sloped like a ski ramp, with a man in a gorilla suit climbing while photographed from directly above. The graphic had been taken from a movie magazine that was getting out some prerelease publicity; like the facts in most movie magazines, it was incorrect. There was never a man in an ape suit in any part of the film, as "Famous Monsters" pointed out. (That technique had to wait for "Godzilla...
...diversity of the equally-qualified applicant pool grows and grows, race will cease to be a discernable plus in Harvard College admissions. I think Mansfield knows this. So why does he persist in making a point that is, at best, insubstantial, and at worst, willfully incorrect...