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...It’s not a new search policy. That’s the policy on which we’re trained; I’ve been instructed to follow it.” (Just taking orders, eh? We’ve heard that one before, Mr. Fasci-ism). I also asked him whether anyone has ever successfully escaped with an un-checked-out book: “It’s happened more than once,” he claims. Sometimes, situations are nuanced and delicate, and one should wait before passing judgment. But sometimes, irrationality and bureaucratic inefficiency...
...perhaps because Affleck took a long time to make a serious movie after Good Will Hunting (while he was saving the world, co-star Matt Damon made The Talented Mr. Ripley), people pegged him as an action star, not a thinker. And when he went gallivanting around in camel-hair coats and Bentleys and had news of his engagement broken on Primetime Live, people figured he was full of himself. It takes only a tiny shift in perception before everything a person does can be misconstrued. Just like that, the assets Affleck had relied on became liabilities. His spirited antics...
...Politics has never been a gentle game. As far back as 1895, satirist Finley Peter Dunne's fictional saloonkeeper Martin Dooley observed that women, children and prohibitionists would do well to stay out of it, because "politics ain't beanbag." But surely, even Mr. Dooley could never have imagined a day would come when a mere seventh grader could be swift-boated...
...Political speech in America, however, receives protection from any legal ban as well. Yet this simple fact does not nullify Mr. Hunter’s legislative logic or the claims of the Academy’s critics...
...universities did not so regularly insist on pushing the envelope with radical and often anti-American politics, perhaps their speech and actions would not deserve careful and critical scrutiny. But, if Mr. Hunter’s legislation is a portent of things to come, perhaps this is—like so many of our own grade-school pedagogues had warned—a lesson better learned the hard...