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...Wendell H. Furry, an associate professor of physics, appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Three witnesses had said Furry had formed part of Harvard’s “Red cell” in the thirties.“I am not a member of the Communist Party, I have no personal knowledge as to whether or not there is any Communist Party activity at Harvard or anywhere else,” he told Sen. Harold H. Velde’s committee.Citing the Fifth Amendment, Furry refused to speak to the Velde committee about communism. Over...
Crane's currency challengers have found a champion in Arizona Republican Representative Jim Kolbe. A free trader who calls the Crane monopoly "un-American," Kolbe has introduced legislation every year for a decade to overturn the laws that he says favor Crane. "First, there's the provision that only companies that are [at least] 90% American-owned can bid," he says. "We don't allow that for anything else, not even defense." The Secret Service insists that money must be produced and printed within the U.S. to maintain security, but the GAO found no reason to bar foreign companies from...
...Marginalizing and criminalizing of immigrants is un-American," he said. "It does not make America stronger, even though our government tells us that it does...
...dialectic of extremes. Troy's pal Chad (Corbin Bleu) proudly voices the philistine argument: "The music in these shows isn't rock or rap or anything essential..." and "They've got you thinking about show tunes when we've got a basketball game next week." (Why, that's un-American.) The Broadway side is taken by the mandatory snooty blond, Sharpay (Ashleey Tisdale), who calls the Garofalesque composer of the show a "sawed-off Sondheim" and sees it as her mission "to save the world from people who don't know the difference between a Tony Award and Tony Hawk...
...government over this unjust policy,” Meehan said. “Ultimately, Congress must act to overturn the military’s outdated ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy, which is as ineffective as it is un-American.” —Staff writer Paras D, Bhayani can be reached at pbhayani@fas.harvard.edu...