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...host of the upcoming World Cup soccer tournament, Germany has been touting the games as "A Time to Make Friends." But a rash of attacks by far-right groups is raising fears that some of the estimated 10,000 neo-Nazis who live in Germany will use the event to broadcast their message of hatred and intolerance to a global audience. In the same week that neo-Nazis in East Berlin are suspected of attacking a member of Parliament who is of Kurdish origin - and who remains hospitalized after suffering a concussion - German police released a national report documenting...
...statistics released this week. But more than 90% of these far-right crimes were non-violent and political in nature, such as displaying swastikas and violating other post-war bans on Nazi propaganda. The number of racist attacks actually decreased last year. World Cup organizers insist that while neo-Nazis may be preparing to make a spectacle of themselves this summer, local police and security services are more than up to the task of keeping them in check. The games, they say, will...
...Neo-prohibitionist vigilantes argue that non-smokers need to be protected from noxious fumes. Restaurant patrons, they cry, have a “right” to eat in a smoke-free environment, and bar workers should never be “forced” to work in a smoky haze. And these hypocrite liberal lecteurs know the solution: a totalitarian-minded ban on smoking in public places...
Ultimately, smoking bans represent far more than a minor inconvenience to smokers; this neo-prohibitionism paves the road to far greater somatic oppression, because it sanctifies the violation of personal liberty and private property to prevent private harms and freely-chosen dangers. Inventing “rights” to protect—customers’ and workers’ so-called right to a smoke-free environment—self-appointed health-nannies want the power to impose their personal preferences on everyone...
...world that Harvard isn’t all pedigree, but promise and progress as well. Yet it cannot successfully burst into the 21st century by denying its heritage and aesthetic. An intrinsic part of Harvard’s allure is its unique character, its singularly American mix of neo-Georgian, neo-Classical, and colonial architecture, its brick and ivy. The airy glass structures of Behnisch are beautiful to be sure, but they do not highlight Harvard’s heritage or evoke its glory. Instead they evoke the new science complexes of Anycollege, U.S.A., something which Harvard...