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...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.” “One of the nice things about talking to Larry is that he always gives you food for thought,” Bacow said. —Staff writer Clifford...
...facts stand today, the events of 1915 fail to meet the definition of genocide as established by international law,” he wrote...
...manageable. The fourth one—I couldn’t get myself to read the fourth one. Seriously, you know the author’s getting desperate when she has to pull out a long lost sister. And now a fifth? How many more times can we stand to read about Becky Bloomwood shopping herself into debt without wanting to strangle her? This is utterly depressing. I need to go on a major shopping spree to cheer myself...
...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’re not likely to try. The only way they can win is if we lose our nerve and abandon our mission...
...sectarian militia at war with one another, each jockeying to occupy the power vacuum that we created—to make you think that this war has anything to do with the War on Terror. He invokes “nerve” and “a stand-up fight” to remind you that the Democrats have no nerve, and would lose a stand-up fight—and to remind you that Nerve is “Five-Deferment” Cheney’s middle name. He wants you to fear debate?...