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Last week Tuesday, The Crimson ran an article describing the alternative views of Christopher Columbus held by several students at Harvard, including myself. I commented that Americans might not be so eager to celebrate Columbus Day if they knew more about the atrocities which he committed in the New World...
...Columbus-fans are generally unaware that the so-called "discoverer" of America not only personally murdered hundreds of West Indians, but set the precedent for the genocide and slavery of tens of thousands more...
...said "If we shining White Anglos knew more about the fact that Columbus was Italian, we celebrate the holiday less," then Mr. Vellucci would have had good cause to accuse people like myself of harboring anti-Italian prejudices. However, I did not. I therefore regard Mr. Vellucci's comments to The Crimson as remarkably asinine and uninformed. My interview with The Crimson contained nothing directed against Italian-Americans...
...agree that many people probably do not take pride in Columbus. But to argue that Columbus never hurt anyone is to deny historical fact. "He was a fine man," said Mr. Vellucci. Comparing their resumes, one might just as easily conclude that Adolf Hitler was a "fine...
...long the shutdown would last and how deeply it would bite remained uncertain. Fortunately, it went into effect on the Columbus Day weekend, giving Congress and the President three more days to strike an agreement before most government employees were due to report to work. On Friday evening, while congressional leaders scrambled to rejigger the deficit-cutting plan to make it more acceptable, the House overwhelmingly passed a short-term continuing resolution that would have funded government operations for a week. The measure was approved by a voice vote in the Senate hours later...