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Meanwhile, IBM announces more cutbacks in New Youk and Raytheon announces big layoffs in Massachusetts. In these times the insinuation by anyone, however "notorious" or "respectable", that Jews, Blacks, immigrants, gays or any demonized "Other" enjoys "preferences" is irresponsible, reckless demagoguery. Whatever happened to old-fashioned debates? When Malcolm X came to Harvard he debated. Drop the "show-biz" format. Why not real debates? Let two sides argue, rebut, present evidence, and question witnesses. Let the world know that if you come to Harvard mouthing cliches you'll get hammered and demagogues will censor themselves...
...Franklin. In current movie terms, and when the incendiary issue of AIDS is raised, the towns couldn't be further apart. The hit film Philadelphia treats its subject gingerly, making its hero a saint and a near monogamist. Cyril Collard's French film Savage Nights is defiantly incorrect, even reckless, in its political agenda. Its hero is a fellow who is HIV positive but continues to have unprotected sex. C'est la vie. C'est la mort. No big difference...
...students burned is now suing the local chapter and national organization of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Vanderbilt for negligence and reckless endangerment...
There is a war raging in the streets of Cambridge, a constant battle between pedestrians and cars. Aggressive street-crossers dart in front of on-rushing traffic, reckless drivers show no mercy. At first glance, it seems that the care, fast and lithe, have a clear advantage over the pedestrians. Careful observation, however, reveals that pedestrians have one highly effective weapon at their disposal--the crosswalk button...
...historians mine its lessons, the Northridge earthquake may be recalled as a natural and bureaucratic disaster that tested the city's spirit, threatened hopes of economic recovery and jolted some of its scarred population into packing up and leaving. Or it may turn out that Californians, known for their reckless hopes and short memories, will find blessings in the rubble -- like the bearded man in the mackinaw and shorts who stood, just an hour after the quake, at the intersection of Reseda and Sherman Way, only a mile from its center, and directed traffic with a torchlight...