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...PERRY Barlow's piece, ''Thinking Locally, Acting Globally'' [ESSAY, Jan. 15], criticizing online censorship. CompuServe's decision to censor speech has deprived millions of users. Around the world, homosexuals rely on the banned newsgroups for support and guidance. Many of the other newsgroups discuss adult subjects in a candid manner. In the information age, censorship is not what is required; common sense is. People need to know what is on the Internet and accept its presence. If Germany can censor CompuServe, what will protect other online service providers from facing similar restrictions? MARTY R. PAZ Las Vegas...
Since January 1, the City has been deprived of Kenneth Reeves' leadership. Council members would do well by voting to reinstate it. As the situation stands, they are preventing the business of Cambridge from transpiring in a democratic manner, and may soon prevent it from transpiring at all. Cambridge residents worry along with former mayor Reeves that the School Committee will become impotent from inactivity. If the council chooses to elect Frank Duehay as the next mayor, then it ought to get itself together and officially invest him with the office instead of allowing him to hold power without title...
...manner in which Lewis has made his decisions leaves no room for excuses. A dean of the College should be someone with whom students feel comfortable speaking and whom students believe will really listen to them. A dean of the College should be approachable. A dean of the College should not make statements that needlessly incense hundreds of people, such as his e-mailed question after the PBH rally: "Isn't [the turnout] at most fifth a of the number expected, and about half the number of students (1700) that are claimed as members of PBHA...
Engel inserts the audience both physically and dramatically into the action. Physically, the audience is underground with the cast, divided into three sections around the stage, and looking through green diaphanous curtains which hang from the ceiling like death shrouds. Coffin covers, large bones and all manner of trailer trash interlaced through the kudzuesque drapings complete the illusion of depth...
...constant challenge to present ourselves in a manner in which we are taken seriously," says council member E. Michelle Drake...