Word: lipstadt
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...Jewish Congress official Phil Baum, who released a statement predicting that the historical record will eventually show a "deliberate failure of the church generally to respond" to the Shoah, adds on the phone, "We are not disparaging of the Pope's efforts to live with this responsibility." Sighs Deborah Lipstadt, a Holocaust-studies expert at Emory University: "It points out more of the failing, to say 'half empty' rather than 'half full.' But I would have expected a more full glass from this statement. This was such a long-awaited statement...
Smith, who solicits donations in his ads, says he targets campus publications because he cannot afford the rates of major newspapers. But Deborah Lipstadt, an Emory University religion professor, suggests other reasons. In the atmosphere of academic freedom on most U.S. campuses, she says, students support the principle of free expression and are more likely to publish views that are repugnant or blatantly false. Also, says Lipstadt, "there may be a lot of young people who don't know about the Holocaust. They may wonder if there isn't something to these arguments." Indeed, a 1992 Roper survey found that...