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Thus, we did not persecute Leonard Jeffries for his political views, nor did we treat him unfairly in our news coverage of his speech and the controversy surrounding it. We criticized Jeffries because he threatened the life of a Crimson reporter and has made other suggestions of violence against whites...
So it's noteworthy that a mere generation after someone got the notion it isn't right to persecute people for their sexual orientation -- a thing no more easily changed, it turns out, than Martin Luther King's skin or Gloria Steinem's gender -- there is quiet recognition among a...
ROTC thus categorically bans about 10 percent of American college students from participation. In addition, it expels hundreds of gays and lesbians from the program each year, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. And now, it has chosen to persecute individual students at Harvard and other schools by asking...
Why did I persecute this man?
Perhaps Marion Barry, Washington's mayor, and Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, should celebrate Black History Month by watching Glory. When Barry was arrested for cocaine possession last month, Hooks' most visible reaction was that the mayor had been the victim...