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McGillis spent three days at Harvard during which she led two Quincy House workshops and hosted a public screening of her 1984 film release Witness, followed by a question-answer series. Saying that this was her first visit to Harvard, McGillis joked, "I have never before been on the soil of 'higher education' in my life...
...EVIL FLOURISH in our society where we give it the soil to grow. But once the evil is gone will we have to reinvent it to remind ourselves what we should not do? Should we reprint racist remarks to warn what we might revert to? And when racism was a more apparent problem than it is today, should we not have protested against it? Perhaps we are silly and being laughed at, accused of being prudes but think of the standards you apply when you laugh and try to wonder whether you can rationalize away sensitivity...
...three centuries later. An American TV crew embarks on another momentous trip: to the Soviet Union to film a mini-series based on Peter's life. But the production is in turmoil from the start, and the movie's creator is fired before the crew sets foot on Russian soil. The Soviet bureaucracy and brutal cold cause countless hardships and delays. Then the star falls ill and has to quit before filming is complete. His role is taken over by an unknown look-alike...
Libya has made the leap to war. It terrorizes our citizens, supporting murderers and highjackers. It shoots at our planes when they fly in international air space. It has threatened to foment terrorism on our own soil. If the United States decides war is necessary, I would serve...
Rumania does not permit Soviet troops on its soil, and the government of Premier Nicolae Ceausescu allows Jews to emigrate more or less freely. As a reward for such behavior, the U.S. has given Rumania most-favored-nation status, entitling it to low tariff levels on exports...