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...hate speech” need no such label to be considered bad arguments. As members of an intellectual community, each of us already has the capacity to identify bigotry where it exists and to distinguish valid argument from hate. We don’t need outspoken proponents of “tolerance” to do it for us. What we do need is dissent from students like Pappin, who challenge us all to examine the limits of our inclusiveness and to question the bitter hypocrisy of whom we choose to tolerate and whom we choose to silence...
...White and Blue, promising the nation's enemies, "We'll put a boot in your ass/It's the American way." The culture wars returned, with books from political playground scrappers like Michael Moore and Sean Hannity. Online, the explosion of self-published weblogs revealed a community as divided and outspoken as in the angry-white-male '90s. Architects last summer released their first proposals for rebuilding the World Trade Center site--and the designs were quickly smacked down by the public as too blah and timid; a more adventurous set of plans, replete with soaring towers and sky gardens...
...Mitch McConnell The four-term Senator from Kentucky is one of the GOP's most outspoken fiscal conservatives, and has fought tooth and nail against campaign finance reform, citing possible infringements on 1st Amendment rights. Although he is a member of the powerful and often contentious Judiciary committee, McConnell is not especially adept at handling controversy, and has generally shied away from social issues. Of course, given Lott's recent foray into social commentary, McConnell's relative reticence could suddenly seem quite attractive...
...railway and shipping company based in Richmond, Va., Snow first joined the government in the Ford administration. Although as a business leader he has stressed the importance of balancing the budget, he has recently begun to tow Bush’s policy line and has almost magically become an outspoken advocate of slashing taxes for corporations and individuals, even if that means running short-term deficits...
Wechsler has been an outspoken critic of lax attitudes toward on-campus drinking, and his research has been cited as justification for the ban of kegs at this year’s Harvard-Yale game...