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...outline the many positive proposals which were passed. These proposals included decisions to schedule the meeting in the Lamont Forum Room on the 21st, to read many banned books and not just Rushdie's and to solicit the participation of all interested publications, organizations, professors and students. The explicit intent behind these proposals was to unite the Harvard community, including The Crimson and the Quarterly, in an affirmation of universal freedom of the press...
...Crimson article not only failed to mention these proposals, but undermined their productivity. Its pitting of the Quarterly against the Advocate presents the issue as a game of one-upsmanship. This coverage fosters divisiveness directly opposed to our intent of unification...
...decision on whether to convict Steinberg of murder or manslaughter hinged upon fine distinctions of intent and responsibility. The murder charge would have required the jury to find Steinberg guilty of "depraved indifference to human life." There certainly seemed to be evidence of that. After being pounded into unconsciousness, Lisa was left lying on a bathroom floor in the couple's Greenwich Village apartment for some twelve hours when Steinberg went out to dinner. Nussbaum testified that after his return, when she told him the girl could not be revived, he insisted they free-base cocaine before calling for help...
...staff fails to recognize that not all who question current forms of affirmative action, as the Court does in Richmond, are racist and are intent on "rolling back" civil rights. The staff's position implies that supporters of the decision are somehow against improving race relations and are insensitive to minority concerns. Such implications are both misleading and counterproductive to the purposes of conferences like Visions...
...call a sophisticated concept for a film. Yet, as a "made for television movie," the plot for Her Alibi might be almost palatable. Selleck is in top Magnum P.I. form here--he barely needs to change his act, and one cannot help thinking that that was the original intent of writer/director Bruce Beresford. The cynical and self-deprecating cracks are in full force, and there is even that familiar Selleck voiceover that distinguished the Magnum TV series...