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...these do, of course, provoke dialogue (at Columbia, it contributed to the founding of our Office of Multicultural Affairs), they also trivialize matters that are deserving of serious discussion. More recently, the Columbia University College Republicans held a “global warming party” (complete with snow cones, Frisbees, and beach umbrellas) to protest a campus screening of “An Inconvenient Truth.” I sincerely hope that, on all campuses, conservative political groups will return to respectable discourse rather than engaging in these ridiculous antics...
...animal off, though it still seemed to be chewing something gelatinous while the professor, writhing on the floor, held his hands to his bloodied face. Looking up, I saw the teaching fellow smile. Her purse looked empty. As she rose she called a curt command: “Snow!” The terrier dropped the eyeball and scurried to the exit as the teaching fellow, too, left the hall. The first snow fall of the year had proved disastrous for Professor...
...motion to give a woman second-thoughts, administering a cool corrective, sometimes called a douche, to a fantasy that she had only moments ago begun to entertain, namely that she and Alasdair would find themselves exiting the concert at the same moment, hitting the night chill, the light snow drifting counterclockwise through the lamps in front of Sanders, and that he would first laugh to see the fresh ecstasy of Linus—tiny clustered prints in the white—and then recognize her, Oh!, which would prompt one or the other to start...
...imperialist and do nothing beneficial for the region. Sait T. Tangor Ankara, Turkey Dividing Iraq will not end the civil war; it will be seen only as another example of heavy-handed U.S. imperialism, especially in the Muslim world. Davis Zong New York City It's Snowtime Re "The snow show" [Nov. 13]: the Republican Party ought to nominate White House press secretary Tony Snow as its next presidential candidate. He is vigorous and intelligent and has a way with words. Unlike most of our politicians, he is neither stodgy nor crooked. He has a sense of humor...
...Snow may be the slickest press secretary in years, but that still makes him little more than the Bush Administration's court jester. Any credibility he had as a journalist was ruined when he took the job as mouthpiece for the White House. He is going to end up as spokesman for some corporation or lobbying firm. No matter what, he will be highly paid...