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...that scorn doesn't prove that a controversial idea is right (people laughed at Darwin, after all, but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown), it doesn't prove an idea is wrong, either. "What we do," says Nelson, "is give everyone a respectful hearing. If we think a speaker is doing bad science, we consider it our duty to criticize it. We get our share of lunatics, but they don't hang around long...
...words of Joel Kotkin of the nonpartisan New America Foundation, a public-policy think tank. A liberal at heart, Villaraigosa was a union organizer and then president of the Southern California branch of the A.C.L.U. before getting elected to the California state assembly in 1994. He served as speaker of the assembly from 1998 to 2000, then ran for mayor and lost to Hahn in 2001, but was elected to the city council. Throughout his career, he has shown more skill in bringing opposing sides together to negotiate deals than in generating new ideas. In this year's mayoral race...
Make no mistake: we have no fear that Tim Russert will be anything other than a great Class Day speaker, so students should not feel they are stuck with second best. As the host of the most-watched Sunday morning news program in America, Russert will offer an insightful, measured, and necessary perspective for graduating seniors. To top it off, Russert is the winner of numerous “Best Father” awards—certainly not something Ali G could put in his résum?...
...Keynote speaker Gus Frias emphasized the importance of helping those in need and developing relationships of honesty and integrity. Frias, an alumus of the Graduate School of Education, is responsible for developing violence prevention programs in Los Angeles schools...
Yesterday’s meeting did not address the controversial bill to provide for direct elections that has provoked a heated debate on the UC’s open list and even drew a guest speaker at the beginning of the meeting...