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...core of the university, and those who knowingly attack it commit an offense more serious than pyromania or even plagiarism. The only reasonable penalty is separation from the university. It is utterly ridiculous that members of the Harvard community who have willfully violated the free speech of others dare to whine about their own right of free speech when caught and charged with doing so; and it is almost obscene that they attempt to clothe themselves with the dignity of civil disobedience, even though their words and actions have been anything but civil, even though they deny any authority...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boot 'em | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...lectures or blockade him in his classroom or office, or pelt him with vegetables, there can be little doubt that the university would rush to his defense, and rightly so, in the name of academic freedom. Indeed, last year's incident at Dartmouth shows that when right-wing students dare to copy the tactics of the Left, university officials may come down upon them with the wrath of God. But since, as it happens, today's brownshirts are not on the Right but on the Left, since they mouth humanitarian slogans, and since their victims are those for whom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boot 'em | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...like the Old West. Whoever draws his gun first wins. Someone lights a cigarette, and another person says, 'You can't smoke here.' Then the first says, 'I dare you to do something about it.' And there goes the peace and tranquillity of an evening meal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Hands Up and Butts Out! | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

...friends." That was more than mere rhetoric. Today the Federal Republic is Israel's leading European trading partner and is the principal supplier of technology and tourists, after the U.S. Of his trip to Bonn, Herzog said, "Just as we can never forget the past, so we do not dare to ignore the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Sagging Spirits | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...seekers herald their arrival with windshield graffiti reading PADRE NAKED, TEQUILA TRUCK and SINK THE ISLAND. Youths have carted off street signs, & spray painted condo windows and littered the pristine beach with cans and bottles. Says Fire Department Aide Bobbye Dowda: "Ceilings are torn out. Kids dare you to run into them on the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Spring Break at South Padre | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

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