Word: libelous
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...wedding's off, and the gentle breeze is writing her own gale-force tell-all. Grammer also claims that Cerlette Lamme, whom he gallantly calls "not the neediest woman I've ever been with but needy enough," got high and lost his dog, Goose. Lamme is suing for libel and invasion of privacy. Not one to dwell on past errors, Grammer spent much of last week with CAMILLE DONATACCI, a Club MTV dancer and former soft-core porn actress, who describes herself as "a free-lance associate director for the BBC" and who thinks he's wonderful. Says...
...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...
...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...