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...cite 26,000 people killed annually through the misuse of guns, yet you make no mention of the many more thousands who are alive because they were able to use guns to defend themselves from violent criminal attackers. Would you run a business where you tracked only debts in the ledger book, but not income...
...kill the man who broke into our home late that night—I did not even fire my pistol. He turned and ran because he assumed (correctly) that I was willing to shoot him to defend my wife and family. In that regard, our experience is similar to the vast majority of defensive gun uses each year. A gun can protect someone just by its very presence...
Paul F. Gilligan ’05 said he heard the nasal screams of “We want the paw!” and prepared to defend the room from an attack...
...among West’s detractors, these are all at least debatable criticisms. And while West certainly isn’t unique among Harvard professors for his professional slumming (ask Marge Garber, fresh off a book about sex and real estate, or Alan Dershowitz, who took time off to defend O.J. Simpson and Mike Tyson), his relentless pursuit of celebrity and insatiable appetite for publicity sets him apart from the field—look at Friends of Cornel like P. Diddy and Mumia Abu-Jamal. That Summers chose to begin cleaning house with West might have been ham-handed...
...companies that do business in Israel, until Israel complies with United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 which calls for Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories. This preposterous proposal comes at a time when it would do the most harm to Israel. At the moment, Israel is attempting to defend its citizens and its borders from terrorist attacks, as is the right of any sovereign state. This proposal for divestment once again makes Israel the victim of a double standard; Israel is not the only nation that takes strong and forceful action in times of war, yet it is consistently...