Word: pennsylvanians
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...black, an Asian and a caucasian. But our diversity is not as deep as it may seem. Three of us are from New York City and attended elite private and public schools. The other is from rural western Pennsylvania. I have learned more from my Pennsylvanian roommate in discussions about small town life, sports and ambitions, than I have from my other two roommates...
...White House Travel Office scandal, said Monday that he would resign, in part to continue his job for months without the distractions of campaigning. "I've been here 18 years, and it's probably six or eight years longer than I intended to stay initially," said the nine-term Pennsylvanian, chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, Congress' primary investigative panel. The 66-year-old Clinger is the third House committee chairman and the 12th House Republican to announce plans to retire or seek higher office. Part of his decision, he said, was based on his beliefe that...
...editorial in Friday's Crimson mistakenly reported that the Daily Pennsylvanian ran a Holocause revisionist advertisement in 1992. The paper did not run the advertisement...
...staff of the Brandeis Justice surely engaged in similar discussions in December. So did the staffs of the Duke University Chronicle and the University of Pennsylvania's Daily Pennsylvanian. Both college papers received the same revisionist ad The Crimson did two years ago. At that time, both wound up running...
Atangent to the freedom of expression argument is the speech-marketplace argument. When The Crimson, The Chronicle, the Daily Pennsylvanian, and other college newspapers received the Holocaust ad in 1991, The Washington Post ran a staff editorial contending that college newspapers should have published the ad to ensure that all views were heard. If you let every view out in the open, the Post wrote, the arguments that are flawed, or poorly thought out, will wind up discredited...