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THUS, the question becomes, "Does the right to speak include the right to threaten?" For example, by voluntarily listening to a speaker who says that Blacks are inferior, a white audience legitimizes that statement to themselves as an acceptable way of thinking--one detrimental to Black existence...
...Michigan survey revealed that 92% of high school seniors have tried booze at least once, two-thirds had taken a drink within a month of the study, and more than a third had got ripsnorting drunk within the previous two weeks. Only 26%, by comparison, believed daily drinking would threaten their health or safety -- despite ample evidence that alcohol is implicated in the majority of teenage car crashes, as well as many suicides and murders. Many states have responded by raising the drinking age to 21. Meanwhile, a growing number of parents, faced with the reality that good kids most...
Alex (Glenda Walker) lends an Oriental flavor to the play with her talk of the mythical land of Kinkaja, where monkeys, sacred to some natives but delectable to others, threaten the stability of His Majesty's Government. Walker's performance is natural and unaffected. Unfortunately, it is also inept at times. But at least she remembers her lines, which is more than Schellenberg and Robinson...
Return is an inappropriate term because there is no one to which the West Bank should be returned. The King of Jordan can't be expected to accept control of the area because it will infuse too many Palestinians into his nation and threaten his authority in the same way that the Jews would be challenged in Israel. Let the Palestinians have a chance to rule themselves. The idea that Israel should wait for more moderate Palestinian leadership has been made a mockery by the riots due to the continued occupation by Israel. Those Israelis who have settled...
Strategists for other candidates purport to find nothing strange in these political grants of indulgence. Brian Lunde, Paul Simon's campaign manager, says about Jackson, "You don't beat on someone who doesn't threaten you." But Iowa polling data suggest that Jackson is taking some white populist votes that might otherwise have gone to Simon. In similar fashion, a top strategist for George Bush argues, "There is no percentage in directly taking on Robertson unless he takes you on." But Robertson poses a clear threat to Bush: his Fundamentalist faithful have embarrassed the Vice President in the initial political...