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...examined the text and the layout of the advertisement closely: it was a full page designed to look like a news article, proposing to "reopen" debate about a topic that had been, its author argued, unfairly closed. Much like this fall's 56-page Peninsula issue, the the Holocaust ad cloaked its aggressive position by carefully appealing to "free speech" sensibilities--an appeal that often finds its greatest supporters among the journalism community. Such a tactic offers, as Professor of English and Comparative Literature Barbara E. Johnson noted in yesterday's Boston Globe, "a grammar of reason with a rhetoric...
...well say something precisely about the personal politics of The Crimson itself that while we acknowledged, in a staff editorial, the rhetorical strategies of the Holocaust ad, and the extent to which those strategies cloaked an aggressive purpose, we refused at another time to view Peninsula's tactics in the same light. In an unsigned editorial, we, as editor Ira E. Stoll `94 wrote in a dissenting opinion, accepted Peninsula "on Peninsula's terms," allowing that their arguments were fair arguments indeed, that they were "weak" but not hateful...
...sheer irritation, rats, raccoons, skunks, pigeons and possums are no match for the more than 150 wild peacocks that infest this otherwise tranquil, posh Southern California community. The flock -- often 30 to 40 birds roosting in a single tree -- descends from six Indian peafowl released on the Palos Verdes Peninsula...
That might seem surprising, since Bossi's league originated as a separatist group urging the north to secede from a central government that was bleeding it for the sake of the poorer south. But voters up and down the peninsula are attracted by the league's message of opposition to corruption and confusion in high places, to government taxation and red tape, and to every social ill from joblessness and drug peddling to immigration. Bossi and some of his allies have voiced views toward dark-skinned immigrants that are as racist as any in Europe...
...principle" go, the one reached last week by North and South Korea was rich with promise. Under the six-point declaration, which follows the reconciliation accord signed Dec. 13 by the longtime rivals, they agreed to forgo the manufacture, testing and use of nuclear weapons. To ensure a denuclearized peninsula, each side pledged to allow inspection tours of suspected atomic sites...