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...consumption of journalism. As a newspaper devoted to the highest standards of journalistic integrity, The Crimson does not often shy away from offending readers who take umbrage at its content. But Tuesday’s advertisement was a different story. It was more than just “offensive?? to some readers—it was wrong...
...military onslaught on Gaza last week has been cripplingly devastating for the 1.5 million Palestinians who live—or lived—there. Already, over 400 Palestinians have died, with over 200 killed on the first day of the offensive??the single bloodiest since 1967. Over 1400 are wounded—the majority of whom are women and children—and receiving inadequate medical attention due, in large part, to the long-term Israeli blockade of the Strip...
...found themselves in administrative trouble. A Yale Daily News article reported yesterday that Director of Bands at Yale Thomas Duffy has suspended the band “from all activities and performances, effective as of this very moment” for its “completely inappropriate and highly offensive?? use of props. The prop in question was a makeshift sheet-wall that was supposed to represent the wall dividing Berlin until 1989, with Harvard representing an evil communist regime and Yale the harbor of freedom. The wall was emblazoned with profanity, which Duffy had not approved. While...
...gone wrong and brace for the struggle the ’08 race is likely to be. “So far,” Huffington writes, liberals “have shown little stomach for that fight.”So Huffington “goes on the offensive?? for them. And oh, what an offensive. Within the first chapter, she invokes Orwell, dubs the George W. Bush administration a “Murderers’ Row of lethal bat-swingers,” and speaks of an enduring Dick Cheney fantasy involving nuclear terrorism against civilian...
...think I speak for most students in saying that such “controversy” barely exists here. For example, I did not find the call to prayer to be the least bit offensive??to me and many others, it was a celebration of diversity on campus, and far from the objectionable, oppressive nuisance it was made out to be. And I’m not aware of many classmates inveighing against it or the decision to close the QRAC in dorm rooms or dining halls. Quite simply, these seem like minor issues here in Cambridge, certainly...