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Harvard students and affiliates joined hundreds of others at Faneuil Hall yesterday to honor the 60th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust and shout down neo-Nazi groups who came to protest the event...
...protest forced the closure of streets around Faneuil Hall and Government Center...
DIED. DAVID HACKWORTH, 74, one of the country's most decorated soldiers, who returned his 80 medals to protest the Army's efforts to court-martial him for unrelated alleged violations after he called Vietnam a "bad," unwinnable war on national television in 1971; of bladder cancer; in Tijuana, Mexico. His 25-year military career included tours of duty in seven war zones, and he was said to have been the inspiration for Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. More recently, as a TV pundit, he scorned the "perfumed princes" of the Bush Administration, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...
...other left-leaning blogs last week monitored a round-the-clock mock filibuster that Princeton students organized in front of the school's Frist Campus Center, whose name was a result of a $25 million pledge from the family of Senate majority leader Bill Frist. The nonstop protest--still going strong 11 days after its April 26 launch--challenged the alum's efforts to end the Senate's filibustering of judicial nominees. Joining the students were several professors and politicians, including New Jersey Congressman Rush Holt, above...
...cold war, when the magazine's writers would spar over the major issues of the day: race, sex and communism. In recent years, the Nation has drifted toward ideological orthodoxy, which has cheered its liberal base but driven out such lively writers as Christopher Hitchens, who quit to protest the magazine's shrill contempt for the Bush Administration's foreign policy. Navasky's book is a reminder of a time when magazines served as forums for "moral and political argument, rational deliberation, critical analysis of the problem." Those are qualities that are missing in American political life right...