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That question lay behind an event last week that rattled the U.S. publishing world. After several weeks of growing protests, St. Martin's Press announced that it had canceled its planned release next month of British historian David Irving's biography Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich. St. Martin's chairman Thomas J. McCormack denied that his house had succumbed to "coercion," which included a swelling tide of unfavorable press stories, criticism from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and, according to some employees, telephoned death threats. Instead, McCormack said, a few of the protesters had prompted...
...about three weeks, India, the world's largest democracy, will be going to the polls. To discuss the current state of democracy in South Asia, the Harvard-Radcliffe South Asian Association (SAA) held its third annual Academic Forum last weekend...
DEBI THOMAS, 29; CHICAGO, ILL. U.S. and World Skating Champion In the 1988 Winter Olympics, Debi Thomas was America's favorite against the communist bloc's darling, Katarina Witt. Katarina claimed the gold. Debi stumbled and received the bronze. Though she competed professionally for nearly four more years, Thomas has chosen to pursue life outside the rink. She graduated from Stanford and is now a third-year medical student at Northwestern, planning to specialize in surgery. She has been married and divorced, has done broadcasting work and gives occasional motivational speeches. While medicine will consume her foreseeable future...
...death camps and enthusiastically carried out Hitler's plan to destroy world Jewry. Goldhagen's indictment focuses on the citizenry's complicity in three specific "institutions of mass killing": Germany's police battalions; the so-called work camps in which Jews were incarcerated; and the death marches from those camps by prison guards and their charges near the end of the war. "Hitler's Willing Executioners' is bound to be severely criticized -- at least in Germany -- since it confronts the postwar alibi that average citizens of the Third Reich either did not know about the Holocaust or disapproved...
...Provide students of color with a Third World Center. Perhaps if students of color know there will be a place where they can gather and discuss issues of particular interest to them, they will be more willing to live apart from one another. I should also note that although this letter refers almost exclusively to black students, I feel that much of what I have said applies to other students of color as well. However, I would feel more comfortable if they spoke for themselves...