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Before resigning his post, Redmont cosigned a letter to John Silber, president of BU, with nine other BU faculty members calling into question the integrity of the media project...
Bill Honig, California's superintendent of public instruction, concurs. "We need to have that cultural understanding," he says. "There should be agreement -- whether in Portland, Ore., or Portland, Me. -- that you're going to learn something about freedom and justice." And John Silber, iconoclastic president of Boston University, declares that "Bloom and Hirsch are on the best-seller list because people around the country are just starving for this...
...bail so high that it could not be met. But the act legitimized what had until then been an unacknowledged purpose of many bail procedures. "This sends a dangerous message that the trial is an afterthought," said Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz last week. New York Defense Lawyer Alan Silber was reminded of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: "To paraphrase the Queen of Hearts, 'First the sentence, then the trial...
Moreover, there are many who question the very premise behind ICL--the notion that students must shoulder the financial burdens of education because they are its beneficiaries. Boston University President John R. Silber, for example, vigorously attacked the Education Department's budget on these grounds in a recent New York Times editorial...
...strange," Silber wrote, "that this Administration, which has campaigned on the issue of bringing fiscal realism to Government, does not see that spending on education is not consumption but investment. A dollar well spent on education is a dollar spent in developing our country's most important capital asset: intelligence...