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...classic Peanuts, Lucy tells Linus about Rosebud as he starts to watch Citizen Kane. Any true whodunit can be ruined that way--it's a foolproof test. The most facile of the genre proceed according to a formula, and if you're good enough--as my mother is with Perry Massons--you can guess the victim, and then, the murderer, nine times...
...room where the invited speaker is to talk, all members of the audience are under an obligation to comply with a general standard of civility. This means that any registration of dissent that materially interferes with the speaker's right to proceed is a punishable offense. Of course a member of the audience may protest in a silent, symbolic fashion, for example, by wearing a black arm band. More active forms of protest may be tolerated such as briefly booing, clapping hands, or heckling. But any disruptive activity must stop when the chair or an appropriate university official requests silence...
...speech, even parts deemed defamator or insulting, entitle any member of the audience to engage in disruption. While untruthful and defamatory speech may give rise to civil liability it is neither a justification nor an excuse for disruption, and it may not be considered in any subsequent proceeding against offenders as a mitigating factor. Nor are racial insults or other "fighting words" a valid ground for disruption or physical attack, certainly not from a voluntary audience invited but it no way compelled to be present. Only if speech advocates immediate and serious illegal action, such as burning down a library...
...panel declared that interference with free speech should be a punishable offense, even when talks are deemed "defamatory or insulting." The only exception would be "if a speech advocates immediate and serious illegal action, such as burning down a library, and there is danger that the audience will proceed to follow such an exhortation...
...magazine journalism is all about--writes a lot about conspiracies, and he has an article in the current Harper's on the Robert Kennedy assassination. Conspiracy writing in the 60s fell into disrepute because it tended toward the paranoid and sensational, and Cockburn and his co-author Betsy Langman proceed carefully. They build a persuasive case, full of evidence, heroes and villains, for the argument that Sirhan B. Sirhan could not have killed Kennedy--he was too far away, and had the wrong kind of gun. Their conclusions are muted; they suggest only that the Los Angeles District Attorney reopen...