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Like other University officials, Rudenstine would not comment on Jeffries' views on race, which have drawn ire and skepticism from others in the academic community. He said he has only second-hand knowledge of the professor's public statements...
IWRITE THIS, it would seem, at the risk of drawing the ire of many Asians and "politically correct" liberals at Harvard. I might even alienate some of my friends. But political correctness has come down to something too important to ignore: No one self-reflects...
...marginal and impotent. Meanwhile, a considerable and very well-subsidized industry arose, hunting the lefty academic or artist in his or her retreat. Republican attack politics turned on culture, and suddenly both academe and the arts were full of potential Willie Hortons. The lowbrow form of this was the ire of figures like Senator Helms and the Rev. Donald Wildmon directed against National Endowment subventions for art shows they thought blasphemous and obscene, or the trumpetings from folk like David Horowitz about how PBS should be demolished because it's a pinko-liberal-anti- Israel bureaucracy...
...distribution of the envelopes, which contained a condom, directions on how to use one, and an AIDS fact sheet, raised the ire of many school officials. But Giroux said the students had nothing to fear--and deserved praise for their initiative...
...that measure, Bush is doing the job right. But there is a danger and a downside to relentless attack. Resentment collects and coagulates among the defeated. Toughness sometimes shades into arrogance and stubbornness. Author Gloria Steinem hardly bothered to focus her ire on the Senators who in the end supported Judge Thomas for the Supreme Court and instead unleashed her anger against "the master puppeteer." In the political world that is both grudging compliment and warning. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, smarting yet again from defeat, took the floor after the Thomas vote and poured unusual rancor on Bush. Every...