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University construction controversy will likely surface in the election as well. At the City Council’s midsummer meeting Monday, several residents of the Kerry Corner neighborhood came to protest the ongoing construction of a graduate student dormitory on Cowperthwaite Street across from Dunster and Mather Houses [see story, page 8]. And one challenger, Lawrence Adkins, is a past president of the Riverside Neighborhood Association...
Fineberg—whose roommate, Lisa Jones, also came to protest Harvard’s construction—said the beeping of trucks backing up into the construction site made it impossible for her to write from home...
That, more or less, has been the case with treating any current war on series TV. During Vietnam, M*A*S*H satirized the Korean War, while on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour Pete Seeger sang Waist Deep in the Big Muddy, a protest song nominally about World War II. Hogan's Heroes, China Beach, even Operation Petticoat took place years after the hostilities. Only old wars were ready for prime time...
...Still, the leaders of the settler movement haven't given up. They planned a massive protest march this week from Israel to Gaza. Sharon last week ordered the army to shut the entry checkpoint to Gaza to prevent protesters secreting themselves in the settlements in advance of the pullout. And by Monday, when the march began, police had already banned it, although settler leaders vowed to press ahead...
Still, as long as Muslims live in pretense, we will be affirming that we have something to hide. It's not enough for us to protest that radicals are exploiting Islam as a sword. Of course they are. Now, moderate Muslims must stop exploiting Islam as a shield--one that protects us from authentic introspection and our neighbors from genuine understanding...