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...speech, they certainly should have learned it during the question and answer period, as some audience members asked about her post-Sept. 11 comments. When one audience member invited Coulter to apologize for her racist remarks, she scoffed and decried liberals for “always biting at the rubber worm” (whatever that means). She then went on to deny that mass deportation was a racist idea, and argued that her comments were only slightly more extreme than Senator Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) proposed bill to suspend student visas. Her response elicited cheers and laughter...

Author: By Nader R. Hasan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bringing Hate to Harvard | 10/31/2001 | See Source »

...Boys scouts used to go to the gas stations and collect rubber mats from cars to contribute them to the war effort,” he says...

Author: By William M. Rasmussen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Civic Engagement On the Rise After Sept. 11 | 10/30/2001 | See Source »

...wide. Northwest Airlines had to remove all the Sweet'N Low from its planes because so many flights were being delayed by powdery fears. Emergency rooms all over the country were swamped with people with flulike symptoms: Was it anthrax, or anxiety, or just October? Mail handlers were wearing rubber gloves, office workers were refusing to open their mail; and there were so many hoaxes that frustrated cops are threatening to put the wise guys in jail for life if they catch them. Local police departments were deluged with reports of suspicious substances. "The green stuff on the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Homeland Insecurity | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

...wide. Northwest Airlines had to remove all the Sweet'N Low from its planes because so many flights were being delayed by powdery fears. Emergency rooms all over the country were swamped with people with flulike symptoms: Was it anthrax, or anxiety, or just October? Mail handlers were wearing rubber gloves, office workers were refusing to open their mail; and there were so many hoaxes that frustrated cops are threatening to put the wise guys in jail for life if they catch them. Local police departments were deluged with reports of suspicious substances. "The green stuff on the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Homeland Insecurity | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

...First, consider the practical effects: The anthrax threat has disrupted the nation's paper communications system as successfully as a super cyber-virus might affect the Internet. Then there's the psychological aspect: Terrified mail handlers are wearing rubber gloves. Office workers are afraid to open any letters. News organizations have closed their mailrooms. Government agencies and legislators are leaving constituent mail in bags. Pranksters are taxing first responders so heavily that frustrated law enforcement officers are threatening to put perpetrators in jail for life if they catch them. Hazmat teams are being rushed here and there to scoop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anthrax Comes to Washington | 10/23/2001 | See Source »

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