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Verbal Villain or Victim of Censorship? If the outrage over radio-show host Don Imus' racist and sexist slur is to hold any meaning, it will be in its power to help us reflect upon the freedoms, values and conflicts that compose our collective psyche [April 23]. Sadly, our society...
The desire to evaluate comments independently of their origin is understandable—there is something disconcerting about holding people of different races to different standards in the name of promoting racial tolerance and equality. But the logic here is flawed. The race, religion, and ethnicity of a person are...
Could society possibly arrive at a point where race had no effect on meaning? Perhaps, but it is hard to imagine that racist language could still exist in such a color-blind world. In the mean time, racism is unequal because language is unequal, and the offensiveness of what you...
Most musicians view music in creative terms; it’s a medium that’s emotional and moving. But to senior Mark P. Musico ’07, winner of the Radcliffe Doris Cohen Levi Prize for musical theater, music isn’t limited to aestheticsâ?...
(2 of 5) Hey, Where's Everybody Going? While the mass departure of French citizens from their Gallic motherland may be noteworthy and alarming, the possibility that this phenomenon is by no means unique to France was not given justice in your article [April 16]. For proof, you only need...