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...test for the provision of Harvard police protection to visiting speakers. He would deny police protection to any speaker whom he or a majority of students finds provocative, inflammatory or offensive, or whom anyone hates enough to supress through violence. In an astonishing moral inversion, Mr. Malisani complains that unpopular speakers "provoke other to riot" by peacefully expressing ideas which their opponents violently suppress. His proposal would allow private thought-vigilantes to suppress precisely thsoe ideas which free speech is primarily intended to protect, those which challenge the underlying foundations of prevailing beliefs and which are sufficently different from mainstream...
...easy to accuse those who express unpopular views of "provocation." Your writer should come out and say what he really believes: that conservative speakers--no matter where else they are welcome to speak--have no right to open their mouths at Harvard. Marci Bobis President Conservative Club
...earns less than the minimum wage of $3.45 a day. Under such circumstances, even last year's 20-fold increase in Mexico City's subway fare to 2 cents a ride was cause for bitter resentment. Reason for the spiraling costs: the failure of successive governments to take politically unpopular steps, such as reducing food-price subsidies and curbing wages, that would dampen inflation...
...resounding "you bet" to the question, Can a ferocious movie about an unpopular war, filmed on the cheap with no stars and turned down by every major studio, find success, controversy and the promise of an Oscar statuette at the end of the tunnel? In its early limited opening, Platoon is already a prestige hit, and the film shows signs of becoming a blockbuster as it opens across the country over the next three weeks. It has captivated intellectuals, movie buffs and urban grunts -- astonishing, across-the-board appeal for a hellacious sermon. It has ignited a fire storm...
...social circumstances imprison many of our citizens who might otherwise be so inclined, our "freedoms" are generally exercised by an extremely small minority of people who participate in the political, artistic and intellectual life of the nation. In rare cases of national upheaval, larger groups mobilize to protest unpopular wars or glaring injustices. But for the most part, if the Constitution were repealed tomorrow, it would be a very long time before the lives of a great number of Americans would be significantly affected--though some would celebrate our new freedom to torture criminals and pray in public school...