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...introduction of Ahmadinejad also served to further academic discourse. Although the headlines may read that Bollinger insulted Ahmadinejad by calling him a “petty and cruel dictator,” Bollinger’s introduction was mainly focused on the importance of free speech??which is all but absent in Iran—and a series of frank, pointed questions on human rights, Holocaust denial, Israel, Iran’s links to terrorist organizations, and the country’s nuclear program.Bollinger’s introduction did not make for a pointless discussion, as some...
...academic freedom allegedly reigns supreme. The administration there welcomed, to their ivied quads, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a virulent international opponent of the United States who in his country has presided over the dissolution of civil rights, an escalating assault on religious minorities, and the continued encroachment on free speech??everything anathema to a university proud of diversity and openness. And, moreover, they gave him a forum from which he might ridicule everything for which the university—and our country—should stand...
Dershowitz said in an interview with The Crimson that he “would never urge” anyone to cancel a speech, and that in fact he had not been aware that there would be a speech??only a party. Upon being informed that there would be a celebration, the law professor said that he had informed PED that he would not be attending, but would instead stand outside and hand out copies of the message that Trivers had sent him to those entering...
...speech??delivered in a high-pitched, quavering voice that is distinctly his—is similarly unique, coming in excitable spasms and accompanied by a frenzied hand-wringing in its more passionate moments: when, for instance, he discovers that the new University librarian is a leader in intellectual history—his own area of concentration when he has time to pick up a textbook...
Kristof also drew applause earlier in the speech??including the point when he asserted that Harvard had “lagged in following up” on its initial leadership in the Darfur divestment movement, and expressed hope that the University resume its guidance in that regard...