Word: witch-hunt
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Hackney allowed Robin Read, a Penn administrator at the school's Judicial Inquiry Office, to perpetuate a near witch-hunt--despite the fact that Penn professors and others in the community rushed to Jacobowitz's defense. Read determined herself that Jacobowitz's remark was a racial slur because water buffalo are black animals native to Africa; in fact, they are endemic to South Asia. Regardless, the last time we checked, the rule was "innocent until proven guilty." Then again, this isn't about the Constitution...
Liem denied that there was a "witch-hunt" to identify the eight tutors, who had met with Jewett in March and spoke anonymously to The Crimson last week. He also denied that there had been any improprieties in the tutor hiring process...
...however, the court is not conducting a witch-hunt. William Green Miller, president of the Committee on American-Russian Relations, has attended the proceedings and is convinced that the aim "is not to establish the culpability of individuals but the illegitimacy of the old system...
...evidence is potentially so explosive that the hearings, which could last several weeks, have been compared in impact to the postwar Nuremberg trials of Germany's Nazi leaders. But Yeltsin's men say they have no desire to start a witch-hunt against specific party officials, including Gorbachev. "There are no victors and no vanquished," says Shakhrai. "People should be tried only for criminal actions, not because they were members of the party nomenklatura." Another team lawyer, Andrei Makarov, puts it more succinctly: "We do not want to turn these hearings into a political show...
Claudia T. Salomon, co-chair of the Women's LawAssociation, also said the posters representedprotest and "more than information." She said, "Idon't think the posters were a witch-hunt...