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Lewis, the former dean of Harvard College, said in a follow-up e-mail that although he hadn’t heard Burner’s statement in the debate, he thought that her comment “was an understandable form of elliptical speech, given the context and the subject under discussion...
...Dean Judith H. Kidd and delivered via all 12 House e-mail lists, stated that “some students have taken it upon themselves to deface, cover or tear down posters with which they do not agree,” and pointed to a 1970 resolution mandating free speech at the College...
...relies on the exoticism of foreign languages rather than the exoticism possible through rhetorical artistry. There are so many imported words, though, and he uses them so liberally that the effect is more exhausting than evocative. Passages like the following, from a British merchant fluent in the hodge-podge speech of Far Eastern port towns, confuse and distract rather than educate: “Now there was another chuckmuck sight for you! Rows of cursies for the sahibs and mems to sit on. Sittringies and tuckiers for the natives. The baboos puffing at their hubble-bubbles and the sahibs lighting...
...Political robo-calls are regulated by the 1991 Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which requires the organization or individual sponsoring the message to identify themselves as well as provide a telephone number or address to which voters can respond. But because robo-calls are considered a form of political speech, they are protected by the First Amendment and, therefore, not subject to the National Do-Not-Call Registry created in 2003 that allows consumers to block unwanted telemarketing calls...
...time campaigning against elitist attitudes. And now here she is, crossing the tarmac in a pair of Cole Haan boots, showing up at Ground Zero in what definitely looks like an Akris Punto jacket (the average price of which runs in the $2,000 plus range), and delivering her speech at the Republican convention in a Valentino jacket. Ka-CHING...