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...such invitations will have on other members of the community. Inviting someone who discriminates against--or even wishes for the elimination of--other groups of people is at least insensitive and potentially disastrous. The line between the need to learn about racism from its propagators and the need to combat such ideas by not giving them a forum can be a tricky one to draw. Generally, we believe combating such ideas is impossible without first hearing them clearly, forcefully and freely expressed...
...countryside with guns, shooting up Arab homes and smashing cars. President Chaim Herzog has warned that vigilante attacks "could create a most dangerous situation in the future." Last week the army announced that it would increase its estimated 4,000-troop force in the territories by 20% to combat Palestinian violence. Yet the Israeli army continues largely to turn a blind eye to the settlers' miscreant activities...
...example, groups have already begun meeting to plan a joint protest in expectation of a possible Harvard address by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Such efforts of student mobilization merit praise. Other students should leave their carrels in Lamont to combat the politics of hate in this election season...
...seemed at first that the Iraqis had these things, and were perfectly willing to use them, the bastards. As The New York Times wrote last January 24, "Hussein might be planning to use an even more horrific weapon, never before employed in combat, known as the fuel air bomb, which spreads a circle of fire...
...today make a living tracking down mammoths or digging up tasty roots. Much of our genetic legacy of sex differences has already been rendered moot by that uniquely human invention: technology. Military prowess no longer depends on superior musculature or those bursts of hormones that prime the body for combat at ax range. As for exploration, women -- with their lower body weight and oxygen consumption -- may be the more "natural" astronauts...