Word: libeled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would have thought that by now Jeffrey Vanke understood the difference between "libel"--which he accused us of perpetuating against him in his letter of April 6--and a candid process of free speech. We trust that by now Jeffrey Vanke has learned that "dialogue" need not be limited to the intellectual equivalent of the tea parlor. Foreclosing dialogue is not our game, Mr. Vanke, and not one white member of the Harvard community who has interacted with either of us regarding America's tragic racial-caste and Negrophobic legacy will support Mr. Vanke's anti-dialogue charge against...
...HUPD's latest mistreatment of my rights has given me another probable cause in my charges of libel and conspiracy to be filed in the Federal District Court shortly. In the meantime, I appeal to the progressive student groups on the Harvard campus to extend a formal invitation to me to speak on this issue which, in a word, represents the ugly, Kafkaesque side of Harvard University. Surely, there must be some one on campus who cares about the freedom of speech! --Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, Ph.D. Professor of American Politics University of Massachusetts at Lowell
...prehistoric a professor's statements are, professors have the right to say what they wish. In fact, everyone in the Harvard community should feel free to engage in the dialogue that the First Amendment was designed to protect, even if their ideas are hurtful or offensive to others. Although libel, slander and words which create "clear and present danger" should be outlawed, feisty political rhetoric should not be censored. Bigoted or misguided ideas should face a barrage of pointed counter-arguments, not the hollow response of silent protests...
Insiders say such problems--not to mention a pair of pending libel suits--led publisher Martin Peretz to ask for Sullivan's resignation at a meeting last Thursday morning. Peretz has declined to comment. In an interview with TIME, Sullivan insisted that his leaving was "absolutely my decision." Yet he admitted that the magazine is a "rough-and-tumble place" and that internecine tensions existed. "I wanted to challenge the world a little, and I made some mistakes," he said. "But my responsibility is to the readers, and if that meant occasionally infuriating a colleague...
...White House suggestion that C-SPAN not rebroadcast it. That was unusual enough to meet the old city-editor test for a story: man bites dog (no special breed). Politicians are supposed to be nearly insult proof, in the way that people associated with the Mob are libel proof...