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Concerned about the message it was sending on free speech, the English department yesterday renewed the invitation it cancelled just one week ago to Tom Paulin, an award-winning Irish poet who has expressed violently anti-Israeli views...
...together grossed more than $1 billion at the box office. If the story lines were not always coherent, at least the action was reliably high octane, the stunts spectacular, the women lovely (and increasingly lethal) and the hero an island of imperturbable British cool amid the mayhem. In the Irish Brosnan, with his nimble brow and arch half-smiles, the franchise has found its most persuasive Bond since Scotsman Sean Connery. Decades of critics have asked when the superspy will mothball the tux and retire. Yet Berry speaks for a lot of post--cold war babies when she says, "Bond...
...writing in order to address a wrong impression that some have drawn from your front-page articles about the decision, mutually agreed upon with the noted Irish poet Tom Paulin, not to hold his poetry reading under the Morris Gray lectureship originally scheduled for Nov. 14 (News, “Controversial Poet Will Not Give Lecture” and “Poet Flap Drew Summers’ Input,” Nov. 13 and 14). The Crimson coverage can easily be read as giving the impression of a unanimous department position on the subject. Such was not the case...
...absolutely central to the University’s mission. But Harvard has no obligation to encourage hate speech, speech that explicitly incites ethnic violence. Such speakers have no place in a community based on respect and tolerance, and for that reason, the English department was right to ask Irish poet Tom Paulin not to give the Morris Gray Lecture...
University President Lawrence H. Summers corresponded with senior faculty members of the English department shortly before the department decided Tuesday to cancel a scheduled lecture by Tom Paulin, an award-winning Irish poet who has expressed anti-Israeli views...