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...have commemorated the end of World War II in Europe [V-E DAY, May 8], a war in which, only 50 years ago, unspeakable atrocities occurred, brought about by one crazy right-wing extremist. Each year we all say, "Lest we forget," but I fear we have already forgotten. You may call me paranoid to think that farmers from a small American town could lead to such inhumanity as the Oklahoma bombing, but who would have thought a lowly, unsuccessful painter like Adolf Hitler could do what...
Apparently Truth and Courage (Peninsula-style) mean calling a faggot a faggot. How very pleasant. How very thoughtful. How very enlightening. How very dignified. Lest one suppose that these instances of "affirming dignity" are the work of a rogue among the Peninsula staff, the masthead assures us that "The Council [the three highest ranking members of Peninsula] accepts responsibility for all unsigned pieces." The two wisecracks quoted above are both unsigned...
...Lest undergraduates think the new director has not considered their needs in his new plan, Sachs said he hopes to provide additional resources for students writing these and forthose hoping to spend time abroad...
...Lest anyone think that something more than Luo's shoddy journalism allowed many of the accusations to go unchallenged, I would like to answer some of the charges leveled at the HRC by "friends...
...drill. On a lonely stretch of highway near the Alabama-Tennessee border, guards and bloodhounds look on as 320 convicts from the Limestone Correctional Facility try to negotiate the tricky business of walking in unison while shackled. Clad in immaculate white uniforms (emblazoned with the words chain gang lest anyone mistake them for pastry chefs), the men are equipped with a variety of tools and not quite sure whether they should be trimming, digging or picking up litter. One makes a desultory attempt to start up a work song, but no one else joins in. Perhaps they're too busy...