Word: letters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...REALLY like letters to the editors of The Crimson. Since my mother doesn't write me very often, these letters are about the only correspondence I get. Twice a year or so, I get fan letter. But more often, I get angry retorts to my opinion pieces...
...FOUND Dershowitz's letter most interesting. In his response, the noted civil libertarian challenged my accusation that he was an apologist for Israeli human rights abuses who defends the curtailment of civil liberties in the occupied territories...
WHAT'S a four-letter word starting with "d" that means "an endless cycle of eternal suffering...
Master Donald Pfister's recent letter to students, the ostensible occasion for the article, was not written to villify our Secret Santa activities or any of our students, but to offer context for a decision regarding the scheduling of our holiday dinner and dance, to clarify concerns about excesses, and to appraise students of past complaints, as the letter states clearly. The letter nowhere calls for new rules for this year's events. No rules or guidelines for these activities have ever been issued by the masters--these guidelines originate in a student/tutor committee, following house discussion, and students, tutors...
Sunder's article, and perhaps some of our students, have chosen to view these discussions among ourselves with a peculiarly conspiratorial twist. By nearly universal consensus here, we have occasionally experienced instances of offensive or violatory behavior in the past. As Master Pfister's letter points out, these may well be isolated incidents, but they also color our perceptions and inform our concerns. Would anyone among us argue that it is reasonable or appropriate, for example, to demand a blow job for a bottle of Freixenet, or to call someone a "faggot" because he or she refuses to have...