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...with outrage, and protests spread throughout Europe in response to the executions in Spain, the news of executions in Iran have received almost no press attention. It is time that the American people heard the truth about the situation in Iran. We are also outraged at the execution of Ms. Manijeh Ashrafzadeh Kermani, the first Iranian woman to be executed by firing squad under the present regime...
...society. In a pluralistic system of the Hegelian mode, public expenditure for Christmas trees would not seem to violate the conception of the modern state as the embodiment of the apex of the free spirit. I realize that this may be a questionable contention. But it strikes me that Ms. Reisman's point of view reflects outmoded natural law thought and a Rousseauist sense of the social contract. Such blatant disregard for the dialectic is unforgivable. Besides, the decorating of a Christmas tree may give expression to the work ethic which, as most Weberians admit, is elemental to the American...
Instead of persisting in a course that might well convert their extremist perceptions of ethnicity into a dangerous ethnic cleavaging of life at Harvard University, would Mr. Hardie and Ms. Reisman consider the following alternatives. For Peter Hardie, withdrawal from Harvard College and enrollment in the blackest of the blackest college he can locate. For Hope Reisman, Jewish seclusion in her own Jewish abode off campus...
...after all, a bit much for Mr. Hardie and Ms. Reisman to expect the rest of us to accept the premises upon which their new ethnic zealousness rests. Martin Kilson Professor of Government
...community certain minorities may at times not feel "part of the group." This seems to be Ms. Reisman's chief complaint, that, as a non-Christian she feels "excluded" both by the United States and from a part of the University which she considers her home. Nonsense. It is her choice to disdain Christianity and there is nothing wrong with that. Further, Harvard should avoid conflicts such as the one involving Freshman registration and Rosh Hashanah. But to contend that because not all students here are Christian members of that faith should be prohibited from expressing their sentiments in public...