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DIED. HERMAN TALMADGE, 88, cigar-chomping ex-U.S. Senator and Governor of Georgia who started as a staunch segregationist--he voted against the Civil Rights Act--but later supported issues important to blacks; in Hampton, Ga. The Democrat won respect for his fierce, effective grilling of Nixon witnesses while on the Senate Watergate Committee but lost his bid for a fifth term in 1980 after the Senate denounced him for financial improprieties...
...hand. The entire purpose of having Horowitz come and speak at Harvard is not just to promote one set of beliefs, but to provide a public forum for both supporters and dissenters to think critically and raise important questions. Former Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, a staunch advocate of civil liberties, once put it plainly: “Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.” If the government listened to Horowitz, we might be safer from future...
Both sides said the meeting went well, but the future of the law school is far from settled. The HLS faculty has backed down from its past staunch opposition to an Allston move and is willing to consider plans, but its attitude remains very skeptical...
...transmit traditional forms of knowledge, and so maintain profound ties to the past. But at the same time, the relative autonomy of universities has allowed them to function historically as sites of critique and iconoclasm. The strange thing about universities in this sense is that they are at once staunch defenders of tradition and hotbeds of radicalism...
...America and much of the modern world, the question “what do you do?” is closely tied up with the more important one, “who are you?” As staunch individualists and rather fervent egoists, our self-conceptions depend heavily on the work we do, the individual force we are able to exert on the world we seek to shape...