Word: recorditis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter Dean Theimann affirms "The School's commitment to the exercise of free speech throughout the University." These are encouraging words, but the School's recent rack record seems to imply a Middle East exception to the First Amendment. As I understand it, the School's refusal to host a conference was preceded by its refusal to host a conference called "Towards Peace in the Middle East," to be sponsored by the U.S. Inter-religious Committee...
...know this? Because of how he characterizes my own views on Israel. Everything he says about my views is demonstrably false. He accuses me of defending "year-long detainment without trial," and "no due process" in Israel. If Larew had simply bothered to read the published record, he would have seen that I have been opposed to administrative detention without due process for nearly 20 years. I have written against the practice, lectured against it in Israel as recently as last year and helped to restrict the practice in Israel...
...backstroke, it took a meet-record effortby Harvard's Paul Watson, who swam a 1:52.47 towin, breaking his own record set last year bynearly half a second...
...last time the Crimson played the Blue Devils, it lost by a school-record 76 points...
...mindlessly swallow all criticism of Israel as obviously correct. A good example of this simplistic belief in the immorality of Israel appears in Larew's article itself. Larew accuses the "Zealot" who tore down an anti-Israel poster of "denial" of the facts determined by the "indisputable photographic record." There is no defending the student who tore down the poster, but pardon my naivete if I ask what fact is conveyed by a photograph devoid of any context? How do I know that the woman threatened in the poster has not tried to grab the soldier's rifle...