September 11th – Why Hate Crimes Laws are Necessary
02 November 2001
ou better watch out — you’re going to get beat up.” These were the words of a Connecticut second-grader to a Sikh classmate following the attacks of September 11th. As to his motive, the second-grader remarked, “he looks just like the guys they said did it on TV.” The Sikh owner of [...]
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Who Will Defend the Environment?
02 November 2001
hat do you call someone who would drill in our Arctic Wildlife Refuge, where there’s hardly any oil?” asked an ad run by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an environmental research and advocacy group. The answer, the ad continues, is: “Mr. President.” An ad run by the Democratic National Committee featured a little girl holding [...]
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The Maverick Matrimony of War and Freedom
02 November 2001
War and civil liberties are not, by most accounts, the most compatible of couples. When war comes in the front door, civil liberties too often make an ignominious exit out the kitchen door dog flap. Americans hardly need to be reminded of the thousands of Japanese-American civilians interned illegally during World War II—especially as history [...]
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Bush
02 November 2001
he attacks on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon six weeks ago caused the Bush Administration to embrace a multilateral approach in forming an unprecedented international coalition of countries to fight the new threat of terrorism. The new world of post-September 11th has forced the Bush Administration to reevaluate its bullish unilateralism and [...]
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Immigration from Mexico
02 November 2001
ecent efforts by Mexican President Vicente Fox and U.S. President George W. Bush to introduce liberalized immigration reform have received a serious but temporary setback as a direct result of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks against America.With these attacks, Americans have immediately become concerned with how immigrants enter the country, about U.S. borders, about their [...]
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Who Guards the Guardians?
02 November 2001
hy should this or any other war require us to handicap our intelligence, empty out our brains, stop up our ears, or blinker our sight? In a time that calls for steadiness and clarity of mind, ignorance breeds panic, panic breeds rashness, and rashness breeds misery and disaster. Unconventional wars, such as the one now [...]
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Protests
17 October 2001
uddenly, in the press of people, something happened. There was a commotion and pushing started between protesters and police in riot gear. People in black scuffled with police who responded with pepper spray in the chaos in front of the red carpet leading to the gold-adorned doors of the Hyatt Grand Hotel on 11th and [...]
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The Common Share
17 October 2001
otally Unacceptable In a recent interview about ongoing safety concerns, Vice President Dick Cheney commented, “Pennsylvania Avenue ought to stay closed because… if somebody were to detonate a truck bomb in front of the White House, it would probably level the White House and that’s unacceptable.” In a related story, the Free Press has learned that the [...]
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Teaching Initiative Has Flaws
17 October 2001
ood Intentions, but lackluster results. Lately, that seems to be the trend haunting the Academic Affairs committee of the Student Assembly, which has worked hard to produce well-researched reports about the academic direction of the College, only to have itself remembered by high profile failures such as almost making us go to class during Greek [...]
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Police Violence at G-8 Protests in Genoa
17 October 2001
n an unpublished preface to Animal Farm, George Orwell wrote that during the Second World War, “official censorship” in England was not so much the problem as what he called the “sinister fact” of British literary self-censorship. It is this type of censorship wherein “unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without [...]
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