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...most countries, such vitriol would signal the ugliest of scandals, perhaps involving choirboys. Father Ly's crime? Challenging the government. Last month, the priest sent a letter to U.S.Congressmen urging them to reject ratification of a bilateral trade agreement until Vietnam grants greater freedom of worship. Hanoi's retaliation against Father Ly was swift, but it may be backfiring and could dim chances for the treaty's ratification. Members of the U.S. House of Representatives' powerful International Relations Committee have vowed to bring up the issue in hearings that could start as early as next month. The action against Father...
...Faculty should reject the proposal to hike term-bill fees. While we disagree with the students who voted against the higher term-bill, their position is understandable: the term-bill may not have increased since 1988, but neither has the number of undergraduates. Students are perfectly capable--far more capable than their professors--of determining for themselves how much they value extracurricular groups, and there is no reason to reject a clear student mandate...
...only justification for overturning the referendum is that Harvard students are not smart enough to know what is good for them. We reject that view. The council, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 and the Faculty should stop patronizing students and start listening to what they have...
Student protesters have every right to dispute the claims of Horowitz's advertisement, and newspapers have the right to reject the ad's publication if they think it is factually or morally incorrect. They may well be right; certainly there are arguments to make against Horowitz's position...
...cancellation - and it could simply be another quirky rescheduling, as when the North Koreans postponed last year's historic visit to Pyongyang by a couple of days - the tenor of statements emanating from the North Korean capital suggested otherwise. A Pyongyang radio broadcast urged South Koreans to reject "subservience and reliance on outside forces," a clear reference to last week's meeting in Washington where President Bush appeared to warn President Kim that North Korea could not be trusted...