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Instead, they violated the academic integrity of the classroom, distracting other students from the important work at hand. I had hoped that the immaturity of this approach had already been amply demonstrated. Not only does such a protest overlook the more productive approach of discussion and learning, it also deprives other students of the opportunity to give their attention to a lecture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Protest Against Mansfield Was Intellectually Hollow | 5/10/1996 | See Source »

...piece [VIEWPOINT, April 15] against allowing doctors to aid people in committing suicide, I was incensed at his cheap shot of inflammatory rhetoric when he derided the Dutch policy on euthanasia. He seems to want to instill fear in an aging American population. Not only did Krauthammer willfully overlook the profound differences in the Dutch and American health systems, he also seemed to misrepresent intentionally the facts of euthanasia in Holland, implying that involuntary euthanasia is a threat there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 6, 1996 | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

...find it surprising how easily liberals can see the racism in sentences such as, "Black men in South Central Los Angeles are criminals," while they will often overlook and occasionally, as in the case of this editorial, make statements such as, "The white Southern man remained consumed by one overriding passion--a paranoid fear of black men." Both statements are racist, and it saddens me that people seem so willing to make generalizations such as these, and that such statements have become acceptable if targeted at white Southerners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: White Southerner Stereotypes Abound | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

Penn (14-9, 9-2 Ivy) and Princeton (18-5, 10-1) must, however, not overlook this weekend's contests at Cornell and Columbia, two teams that should not give them much trouble...

Author: By Connor Schell, | Title: Weekend Losses Thwart M. Cagers' Ivy League Dreams | 2/28/1996 | See Source »

...China, the number of cultural elites is at an all-time low. They are properly educated and pretty well off, which in turn allows them ample time to ponder over things other than the basic requirements of life. When they rise to speak up for themselves, they tend to overlook the majority of the Chinese, who are leading a life completely different from their own: those who are out there struggling in the fields to make ends meet and to whom it never occurs that they should demand anything more than a steady source of the next meal...

Author: By Xiaomeng Tong, | Title: In China, Freedom Is a Luxury | 2/13/1996 | See Source »

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