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...been much reaction. There was, of course, the predictably hyperbolic comment of one member of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), the publicity-savvy activist group that masterminded last spring’s sit-in at Mass. Hall. And of course, some people’s knee-jerk reaction is to say that the dictum from Summers and his deans’ council is a poor one: oh, but now it’s going to be harder for students to protest. That’s so unfair. The University should make it easy for us to argue with...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: Punishment Validates Protest | 3/6/2002 | See Source »

...wing Labour Party, his remarks are truly extraordinary. Recent polls indicate that 86 percent of Labour Members of Parliament are opposed to a war with Iraq. On any number of issues, it is hard to imagine Daschle bucking similar opposition from congressional Democrats here in the States; his knee-jerk partisan impulses wouldn’t allow...

Author: By Duncan M. Currie, | Title: Can We Trade Tom for Tony? | 3/5/2002 | See Source »

...only because, with my blue eyes and flopping forelock of light-brown hair, they thought, in the half-light, that I was Bobby Kennedy. Otherwise, why would a white man be dumb enough to wander around like that in the middle of a riot in Harlem? So, like a jerk, I walked as a god among them for a little while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gleam Of A Pearl | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

...only because, with my blue eyes and flopping forelock of light-brown hair, they thought, in the half-light, that I was Bobby Kennedy. Otherwise, why would a white man be dumb enough to wander around like that in the middle of a riot in Harlem? So, like a jerk, I walked as a god among them for a little while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gleam of a Pearl | 2/26/2002 | See Source »

...Planning Board approved Harvard’s proposal to construct a tunnel underneath Cambridge Street that would link the two buildings that will compose the new Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS). The latest skirmish over a tunnel has been another example of Cambridge activists’ knee-jerk disapproval of all Harvard construction, even when the community stands to benefit...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: The Tunnel of Turmoil | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

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