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I cannot adequately express my feelings at the attention Fenno has lavished on me in recent columns. I have only one request: since I not only never uttered the sounds (words?) that Fenno puts in my mouth, but do not even know what they mean, I would be grateful for footnotes translating them into something approximating English (or French, Italian, German Latin or Czech.
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In the Thursday, November 18, 2004 issue of the Record, Taylor Dasher incorrectly states in his column "Not just a dead red" that Bob Dylan (Bob Zimmerman as he was originally known) hails from a red state. NOT SO! I do not know where Dylan lives now, but he grew up in Hibbing, Minnesota.
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On Thursday, November 18th the Darfur Action Group hosted a vigil on the steps of Memorial Church to protest the human rights violations occurring in the Sudan that has already killed more than two million people, and to advocate the university's divestment from Sudan.
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Re: "Former PLO Terrorist Blames Muslim Fanaticism, Not Israel" Nov 11, 2004: Thanks for your highly informative piece about Walid Shoebat's speech on the Harvard campus. Based on your excellent front-page reporting, which made The Record look like a credible paper rather than, say, a mouthpiece for the HLS Alliance for Israel, I learned the following:All Palestinians are murderous, Holocaust-denying, sadistic, fanatical, anti-Semitic terrorists.
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Can one write an obituary or eulogize Yasir Arafat without betraying a bias in the Israel-Palestine conflict? It doesn't seem possible. But I'll do my best, making only a single, modest point before heading to the highlight reel of the all-important World Opinion to see what our erstwhile allies have said about the recently deceased Chairman.
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Next week, on the fourth Thursday of November, Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving. Schools and businesses will be closed, most for a four-day weekend. People across the nation will board planes, get into cars, and take trains to see loved ones on the busiest travel day of the year.
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The HLS Muslim Law Students Association (MLSA) sponsored a Ramadan dinner this past Thursday in the Harkness Commons that was attended by over 60 students, faculty, staff, and members of the community. "Ramadan is a time for Muslims to refocus on the spiritual aspects of their lives," said Sadaf Abdullah, a member of MLSA.
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Geoffrey R. Stone, author of Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to The War on Terrorism, spoke at the Dean's Forum on November 15th about the civil liberties, specifically free speech, that the nation abandons during wartime.
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Just weeks after the reelection of President George W. Bush, the Executive Branch is undergoing a substantial renovation, as numerous Cabinet leaders have recently resigned. One such resignation offered was that of Attorney General John Ashcroft, and President Bush was quick to announce Alberto Gonzales as his replacement nominee.