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Hackney allowed Robin Read, a Penn administrator at the school's Judicial Inquiry Office, to perpetuate a near witch-hunt--despite the fact that Penn professors and others in the community rushed to Jacobowitz's defense. Read determined herself that Jacobowitz's remark was a racial slur because water buffalo are black animals native to Africa; in fact, they are endemic to South Asia. Regardless, the last time we checked, the rule was "innocent until proven guilty." Then again, this isn't about the Constitution...
...sure he's going to recover from the problems of his presidency." -- Al Hunt, Washington bureau chief of the WALL STREET JOURNAL on Meet the Press...
With next year's Winter Olympics in Norway, the stakes for the tourist ^ industry are higher than ever. Another whaling nation, Iceland, has already quit the IWC but has not yet resumed the hunt for fear of the reaction from environmentally oriented tourists. This suggests that the real power to control whaling lies less in the IWC than in the pocketbooks and votes of consumers around the world...
...opinion by distributing slick brochures. One titled "Let's Take a New Look at Healthy Whale Meat" contends that it is high in protein, low in fat and "good for food-allergenic people." Norway's prowhaling position comes in part from the political power of fishermen, who used to hunt whales when fish were scarce...
...There's still a witch hunt on," one tutor said. "I don't want to speak out because I want don't want any shit...