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...patron saint's name to underscore his cosmopolitan ambitions, Peter built the elegant port as a window to the West, intending to yank his fusty country toward the future. When the Russians went to war against Germany in 1914, the city's Teutonic appellation suddenly became politically incorrect. Emperor Nicholas II's solution was to Russify the name, making it Petrograd. So it remained until 1924, when Lenin died, prompting the Bolshevik government to rechristen the city in his honor. It was there, after all, that worker revolts paved the way for the communist uprising...
Your editorial of April 29, which criticizes the Law School for having photographs taken of students who were blocking access to the dean's office of the Law School, contains several incorrect or misleading statements...
...little coveting between friends?" How could they remain silent in the face of the formation of the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Onanism Group? Why has there been no fury over posters advertising Hillel's Sodomy Brunch? Administrators refuse to tackle this P.C. minority group for fear of being labeled Ponucally incorrect. In doing so, nowever, they support the regain of terror that Hillel's "radical faction," as Webb accurately names it, holds over those members of this campus who do maintain traditional moral values. What of the knife fights which "traditionally" (read: only at 74 Mt. Auburn St.) accompany...
Reilly denied reports that the investigation was centering on Gerald E. Frug's Harvard Law School students. She said that because there was still "no motive and no suspect" in the slaying in Cambridge's wealthy Brattle St. neighborhood, it is incorrect to characterize the scope of the investigation as narrowing...
...which I patterned my routine. I assume Mr. Templeton's failure to address the jokes aimed at Blacks was simply an oversight (an egregious one), and that he finds such self-parody offensive and not "politically correct." If that is the case, I would still much prefer to be "incorrect" any day, as I do not share such an outlook...