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...Survivor: Cook Islands” television show, I feel it was in horrible taste for him to nonchalantly compare an amped-up version of the show to the South. Articles such as this that paint the South as continuing to be a bastion for intolerance and racism in The Crimson make life significantly more difficult for Southerners on campus. How many times have you been asked at a party if you “don’t like black people” simply because you have a Southern accent, Mr. Drummond? I will suppose zero times. Have...
...THOUGHT I KNEW YOU, REVEREND MOON The Nation publishes an expos on the battle over the top job at the conservative Washington Times--owned by oddball Sun Myung Moon, head of the Unification Church--and shows its newsroom to be a hotbed of thinly veiled (and not so veiled) racism and sexism. The Times replies that the article is based on "fabrication." Wait--did Jayson Blair...
...aggressive interviews with world leaders like Yasser Arafat, Golda Meir and Ayatullah Khomeini, whom she famously asked, "How do you swim in a chador?"; in Florence. Of her passion for covering combat, Fallaci said, "Nothing reveals man the way war does." In recent years, she drew accusations of racism for referring to an "Islamic invasion" of Europe...
...aggressive, revealing interviews with world leaders like Yasser Arafat, Golda Meir and Ayatullah Khomeini, whom she famously asked, "How do you swim in a chador?"; in Florence. Of her passion for covering combat, Fallaci said, "Nothing reveals man the way war does." In recent years, she drew accusations of racism for referring to an "Islamic invasion" of Europe and declaring that "sons of Allah breed like rats...
WHAT KIND OF A RACE IS THIS? Embattled Virginia Senator George ("Some of My Best Friends Are Macacas") Allen, who is up for re-election in November, does himself no favors in combatting allegations of racism by holding--and we quote--an "ethnic rally." At least he doesn't wear his Confederate- flag pin. When is he going to get his own Survivor team and be done with...