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Joining him in debating were Dennis Henigan, director of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence??s Legal Action Program, and Eugene Volokh, a professor at UCLA School of Law. Elena Kagan, an HLS professor chosen last week to be the school’s new dean, moderated the debate...
...Scorsese—whose films often feature acts of senseless violence??kept his cool as two men decked out in drag adorned Scorsese with a sparkling bra and a wig of long, golden locks...
...objections to divestment. First, Chomsky argued that divestment is meaningless. Second, he argued that it is wrong in principle. Third, Chomsky opposes divestment for tactical reasons. He argued that a call for divestment is “a very welcome gift to the most extreme supporters of U.S.-Israeli violence??It removes from the agenda the primary issues and it allows them to turn the discussion to irrelevant issues, which are here irrelevant, anti-Semitism and academic freedom and so on and so forth...
...petition, sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, specifically decried recent “death threats and threats of violence?? against Jewish students and supporters of Israel...
...same time, it is crucial that we do not misdirect our anger at racial or ethnic groups. A year ago, President Bush and others rightly and immediately emphasized that Arab-Americans must not be targeted in the aftermath of the attacks. Yet there were still isolated incidents of violence??and more pervasive but less visible, a widespread sense of distrust of anyone who looked like the stereotypical “terrorist,” as meaningless as that concept is. America must rebuild, as a nation that holds pluralism to be one of its dearest values...