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Review President Emily R. Schulman '85apologized for the piece in a letter to students,calling the parody "vicious and indefensible...
...sometimes in the dark of night it hurts. At a televised press conference not long ago, after the Israelis announced plans to deport a dozen Palestinians, one of the wives unleashed a vicious diatribe against Hanan, blaming her for compromising with the enemy. When asked to comment, she said, "I understand her bitterness." But Hanan was shocked and deeply wounded, and she hated appearing to be rejected by her own people. "Why me?" she asked her husband that night. "What...
...unquestionably in control. I mean, they jumped when he came. He almost always spoke softly, and he almost always seemed reasonable. He was not vicious to us, as some of the guards were, particularly when he wasn't there...
Love is a zero-sum game in America, and the children riot over it. Or rather, they riot in the absence of it: it is usually the want of love that makes children vicious and sends them out of control. It seemed perfect that Cosby, America's ideal fantasy father (black) should vanish just at that moment: video metaphysics. Cosby-Huxtable was a heartbreaking American illusion. There is no deeper need among the nation's most deeply needy blacks than perfect fathers, Dr. Huxtables, role models for male children, grown men who will do the first, indispensable thing for children...
Even as the old Yugoslavia is cut apart, blood continues to flow. For 10 months now, this has been no tranquil subdivision but a vicious battle among ethnic and religious groups in which principles of self-determination conflict with respect for territorial integrity. And as the relentless loss of lives and the destruction of old and lovely cities continue, the U.S. and its European allies wonder who is to blame and what it will take to stop the killing...