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...Wall Street Journal op-ed piece laying out the company's position, Time Warner co-CEO Gerald Levin makes two defenses. First, Ice-T's Cop Killer is misunderstood. "It doesn't incite or glorify violence . . . It's his fictionalized attempt to get inside a character's head . . . Cop Killer is no more a call for gunning down the police than Frankie and Johnny is a summons for jilted lovers to shoot one another." Instead of "finding ways to silence the messenger," we should be "heeding the anguished cry contained in his message...
Senior Lecturer on Education Arthur E. Levin agrees. saying Darling-Hammond's selection was the "high point of the year...
...lesson of New Jersey is that even suburbanites who recognize the dimension of the inner-city problems often draw the line at paying to solve them. "It does not make sense to take the money away from good suburban schools so that you risk mediocrity everywhere," says Susan Bass Levin, mayor of the wealthy suburb of Cherry Hill, which is outside Camden. As a result of Florio's plan, she claims, her town lost $5 million in education funds in 1989. The following year Cherry Hill adopted the first in a series of annual school-tax hikes to offset...
...emerged as a populist issue that no politician can resist. This year Michigan Senator Carl Levin introduced the "Corporate Pay Responsibility Act," which, among other things, would permit shareholders to vote on the policies directors use to set compensation. The real target of the bill is stock options, which Levin describes as "stealth compensation" because the value of options does not show up on the books of companies as expenses. So long as companies don't have to expense the value of options against earnings, says Levin, executives will be generous about awarding themselves this form...
...some sort of conspiracy between Hillel and The Crimson. It is "Crimson writers active in Hillel," they tell us, who have "written extensively" on Black-Jewish problems and have "complained about the Foundation's support of some of the BSA's program." And it is presumably because recast Micheal Levin is Jewish that The Crimson does not criticize him. These are false and disgraceful accusations. They are reminiscent of the classic charge of anti-Semites that "the Jews" somehow control the media...