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...whether the appeal of the Nation of Islam -- and of Farrakhan -- is separable from his invective of hate. Leaders throughout history have found it is often easier to succumb to demagoguery, to define a single scapegoat and offer a single solution to life's ills, especially when proposing self-restraint and sacrifice. Would young people choose the hard way of Islam without the zealotry of separatism and resentment? Could Farrakhan fill the seats of big-city convention centers if he stopped offering the allure of the outrageous, the unpredictable, the unspeakable spoken out loud? Perhaps the answer to both questions...
...this country, off the hook. It is an invitation to euphemism, as Farrakhan cheerfully showed. We all should know what each of us thinks, and draw our conclusions. The advertisement in which the Anti- Defamation League reprinted Kallid Abdul Muhammad's little catalog of hatreds was brilliant for its restraint. It was an exercise in clarification. It said to its readers: here is prejudice, measure yourself by it. If it made some (but hardly all) black leaders trim and squirm, well, that was clarifying...
...unfortunate it is, then, that those who have never made the effort to get to know Radcliffe do not practice a similar restraint. The men who tend to whine about Radcliffe's singlesex status apparently know nothing about the case. The majority of Radcliffe-sponsored programs are open to men as well: the Office for the Arts, Education for Action and the Radcliffe Dance Program, for example. What a coincidence the Radcliffe's offerings to the community should tend to cover areas that Harvard has tended to ignore. It has been argued that the existence of Radcliffe helps Harvard...
Toleration implies self-restraint in the presence of someone you find hard to tolerate--i.e. someone you think deserves harm, hurt, damnation, etc. To the shock of the politically correct, this means that most racists, anti-Semites, and homophobes--the civil, law-abiding ones--are perfectly tolerant people...
...time of fiscal restraint, says AssociateDean for Academic Planning Caron J. Thompson, "Youcan't always have every department growing andnothing shrinking...