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...speak out against the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that currently prevents openly gay and lesbian individuals from serving in the military. In an interview last week, Faust said that while she had not yet written her speech, she planned to say that she hoped “every Harvard student had the opportunity to serve in the military.”“That’s a choice that should not be available only to a segment of the student population,” she added...
...Chomsky said, referencing a chapter in Dershowitz’s book “The Case for Israel” and moving on to elements of Dershowitz’s book that he believed supported his own claims of Israeli crimes against the Palestinians. Toward the end of his speech, Chomsky offered some analysis of what he said he believed are American policies that perpetuate oppression of the Palestinians. “Israel’s policies resonate with deep-seated currents in American history,” he said, drawing parallels between the establishment of the Israeli state...
...Students for Israel (HSI). Though Dershowitz and Chomsky—who had spoken at an event an hour earlier—weren’t in the same place last night, the two were engaged in a pseudo-debate because Dershowitz attended the end of Chomsky’s speech and then spent his own seeking to undermine his nemesis, who is an outspoken critic of Israel. The law professor accused Chomsky, whom he first met in 1948, of “making up facts,” calling the linguist a “Holocaust denier, a denier...
...true that McCain has assailed some actions taken by the Bush administration in responding to Katrina since August 2005. For example, in a May 2007 speech he compared FEMA’s inefficient Katrina response to the precision of private shipping firms like UPS and FedEx. He said, “U.P.S., FedEx and Wal-Mart can tell in real time where a package is anywhere in the world, but FEMA, despite its multibillion-dollar budget, couldn’t track many of its assets during its Katrina response…” Similarly, when Congress gathered to assess...
...especially the good works done by Wright's church, the hundreds of lives saved and enriched by the church's social ministry, which, if Saint Peter actually does sit on a cloud with an account book, will surely prove more important than Wright's self-absorbed lurches into hateful speech...