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...attended (about five), he references a New York Times article which labels his class, appropriately, “Idealism 101” and distributes a Christian Science Monitor expose that depicts him as a liberal ideologue in and outside the classroom. He was a featured speaker at Harvard’s large anti-war walkout last year, and at every opportunity he gets (from serving as the emcee of an a cappella concert to chatting with students he meets in the Yard), he lets loose his wry sense of humor against the usual targets: George Bush, John Ashcroft, Don Rumsfeld...
Another keynote speaker, David Orr, who chairs the Environmental Studies program at Oberlin, drew laughter and applause when he snuck into his slide-show a political cartoon of Vice President Cheney strumming a banjo against the backdrop of oil rigs, singing “this land is oiled land, this land is mined land...
...Thanksgiving table is arguably the biggest buffet of exoneration for the fundamentalists trying to enshrine discrimination in our Constitution and push the social discourse ever rightward. This past summer, I worked in the State House as a legislative intern. At one intern forum, I asked Massachusetts House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran, D-Mattapan, about equal rights in the state, and he too went off on some tangent about the fourth Thursday in November. Apparently, self-congratulation and the coveted moral high ground come ready-made with the stuffing and string bean casserole. If you give some polite face time...
Truesdell said Thernstrom’s “expertise in issues of race and history” made him an appropriate choice for the event’s speaker...
Harvard Republican members said they enjoyed the opportunity to socialize with fellow Republicans and listen to a speaker who shared their views...