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Peninsula's latest issue was only the latest in an escalating exhibition of insensitivity and intolerance on the Harvard campus. While nobody would argue that the staff of Peninsula does not have the right to publish their views, we must question their methods of sharing their feelings...
...Chair Rebecca E. Braun said the committee plans to publish preliminary results of its audit on Earth Day, which will take place next April...
Academic freedom is academic freedom. It is the unmitigated right of tenured academics to say and publish whatever they want--including what others may regard as worthless or virulent. And universities--because of their special relationship with the realm of knowledge--must be particularly wary of excluding ideas of any kind...
This week Speth's institute will publish a "Compact for a New World," a proposed model for a way rich and poor nations might come to mutually beneficial agreements in Rio on the environment and development. Meeting in Washington last June, a group of activists, businessmen and politicians agreed that poorer southern nations would have an easier time accepting unpalatable initiatives on population stabilization, climate change and deforestation in return for a substantial quid pro quo. Its elements: debt forgiveness, direct financial aid to help end poverty, and technical help to reduce the poor nations' role in global environmental problems...
Many members of the United Mine Workers of America contend that the MSHA has favored industry for a decade. They point out that the government agency has refused to publish its list of mines considered the nation's most dangerous -- once dubbed the "high-hazard list." The MSHA's chief, William Tattersall, a former coal-industry lobbyist, says his agency aggressively enforces the law. He estimates that most injuries occur because of momentary inattentiveness on the part of miners. Tattersall is bluntly pragmatic about mining's risks, economic and otherwise. He says, "The best advice you can give your children...