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Restlessness in the face of suffering has set Cornel West down many paths—some more useful than others—in a quest to see where he can do the most amount of good in the world. He deserves commendation, not scorn; feedback, not insult. Would that any of us be able to do a fraction of good that he has done in the world...

Author: By Elliot A. Ratzman, | Title: Show Respect to West | 1/23/2002 | See Source »

...closest friends, who asked white sixth-graders at his private school who call one another "my niggah" if they realized that the word was offensive. They would call only other white people that, one of the kids assured him, never a black. They weren't trying to racially insult anyone, just trying to prove that they were down with hip-hop culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dealing With The N word | 1/21/2002 | See Source »

...IRAN "Insult" Brings Jail After more than a year of hearings and appeals, Iranian reformist M.P. Hossein Loqmanian was jailed for 10 months for "insulting" the courts. His crime had been to stand up in parliament and denounce the conservative judiciary as undemocratic. The reformists' attempts to introduce democracy in the country, which has been under authoritarian rule since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, have earned them three landslide election victories ? but also the ire of hard-liners, who have shut down around 50 liberal newspapers and jailed reformists on charges of "insulting" officials and Islam. Iran Special: The Islamic Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 1/14/2002 | See Source »

George Carlin is an insult comic. Forget Jerry Seinfeld’s observational humor: Did you ever notice that they call it Ovaltine when the jar is round? Carlin doesn’t care. Like Leary and Miller, Carlin makes a buck lashing out at all the stupid people in the world. Unfortunately, in his aptly-named latest album, Complaints and Grievances, he steps a little off course...

Author: By Benjamin D. Margo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Music | 1/11/2002 | See Source »

...guys with stupid “sissy” names like Blake and Blair and Blaine and Brent. He hates environmentally conscious yuppies that separate their garbage and listen to Steely Dan. It’s all unprintable filth; my virgin ears are bleeding. Finally, George Carlin is an insult comic again...

Author: By Benjamin D. Margo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Music | 1/11/2002 | See Source »

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