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...When he first started talking, I thought he was a little arrogant,” said Tufts student Courtney Morrissey. “But I was impressed with how brutally honest he was.” Some students afterwards lauded Tufts’ commitment to bringing controversial speakers to campus. “I think Bacow made a good decision,” said Tufts sophomore Kanupriya Kapoor. “He has a tendency to take a firm stand on things and he held his ground even though there was opposition to this speaker...
...faggot” loses its sting if the person saying it is cuddly, left-of-center, and/or not despicable—so Jon Stewart makes the cut, while Ann Coulter does not. One need not look far to see the consequences of this focus on the speaker rather than the speech. For instance, a certain racial slur is okay for Jay-Z, but not for Michael Richards. Or, to use an example closer to home, if an individual is disliked or perceived as illiberal (and at Harvard, these two usually go hand in hand), their benign-to-mildly-offensive comments...
This is nothing new for the Vice President. Cheney has been head of the Orwell Administration’s Department of Euphemism since day one. When asked if he meant to question Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s patriotism when he said that her opposition to “the Surge” was helping al Qaeda, he responded, “I questioned her judgment.” He continued: “The terrorists don’t expect to beat us in a stand-up fight. They never have. They?...
...these issues, I thought it was...good to hear it from the horse’s mouth.” The lecture was co-sponsored by the International Relations Council (IRC), the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and Kirkland House. Martin Liby Alonso ’09, Director of Speaker Events for IRC Campus Outreach, said that he made contact with Blix through a parliamentarian in the Swedish Liberal party. Alonso, a native of Sweden, belongs to the Liberal party and served on the Gavle City Council before coming to Harvard. “Swedish liberals are a breed close...
...Lewinsky scandal. In the upside-down leap of reasoning that this campaign season has wrought in the movement, hanging his dirty sheets from the window was enough to convince everyone that Gingrich is running - and landed him an invitation from Falwell to be this year's Liberty University commencement speaker. "He has admitted his moral shortcomings to me, as well, in private conversations," Falwell wrote in his weekly newsletter. "And he has also told me that he has, in recent years, come to grips with his personal failures and sought God's forgiveness...