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...think of him as my congressman," said Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz, who hosted the $15-a-head event at his large home off Brattle St. Noting that several independent organizations have singled out Frank--who first entered Congress in 1980--as the most effective freshman representative. Dershowitz said, "He is one of the most important public officials in Congress. I feel like I have a stake in this seat...
...brief remarks Frank made to the crowd before circulating at the Dershowitz gathering, he said he would make the election a referendum on President Reagan's policies. He blames the increasing unemployment in the district on the Administration's budget, which Heckler voted for last May. He said the main part of his strategy is to play economic discomfort against Heckler's polities, explaining that her support for the President "is one of the reasons that Margaret Heckler is vulnerable...
...Pleased because members of ALLSA had the good sense to exercise their right in a free society and at one of America's finest universities to ignore the ill-considered pressure from their Jewish peers and to hear any speaker they like. Pleased because I concur with Prof. Alan Dershowitz's remark that a PLO official has the full right of free speech at Harvard just as those opposing him have the full right to express opposition...
However, I was mildly dissatisfied that Prof. Dershowitz didn't carry him observation one step further--to observe that, in the context of Harvard University and any other serious school, a certain edge must be accorded free speech. The right of opposition, while recognized, is not quite equivalent to it, as Prof. Dershowitz intimates. Since the mid-1960s the experience has been plain enough ideological military among the Left, feminists, black ethnocentrists. Third Worlders, the Right, and Jewish ethnocentrists display little appreciation of the delicate states of free speech in our type of pluralist society. These ideological militants must have...
While Prof. Dershowitz's missing the opportunity to underline this primary obligation was mildly dissatisfying. Law School Dean James Vorenberg's reaction to the PLO official's visit was, for me, dismaying. It strikes me as bad form for the Dean of Harvard Law School--an institution with a reasonably good tradition in free speech matters--to appear to be playing politics with free speech issues. Surely he knows no one here--at least no serious person here--questions his preference "to exercise my own First Amendment rights and not speak." It happens that by withdrawing from delivering the welcoming...