Word: speech
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...Constitution - onto which patriots or opportunists are eager to nail wanton amendments from time to time - was not designed for the purpose of making people feel good by silencing opinions that make some people feel bad. The First Amendment functions as an indispensable shock absorber. It protects all speech, not merely popular or majority speech. If you want to enjoy the freedom of America, you can damned well put up with the disgusting freedom of your fellow citizens. Other people's freedom is sometimes offensive...
...over people's not agreeing with him. He proudly says he's "stubborn," as if it's an unalloyed virtue. He wants it known he's not managed, telling the Times, "I can't tell you all the times when I say I'm not going to give this speech...They're changed. Trust me." Wouldn't he have been better off letting words be put in his mouth on David Letterman's Late Show than blundering into an unsavory riff about his host's open-heart surgery? His quick explanation that 60 overnight guests in the Austin, Texas, mansion...
...Last Wednesday, Harvard hosted Jane Fonda, an active supporter of America's totalitarian opponent in the Vietnam conflict (News, March 16). On Thursday, Harvard hosted Patrick Buchanan, a controversial politician with unpopular views (News, March 17). The contradiction in student reaction to the speeches and in your coverage of the speeches amazes me. Attendees of Fonda's speech warmly received her, and never questioned her about her actions in support of Ho Chi Minh and North Vietnam. Similarly, the news article neglected to mention that aspect of her past. Buchanan, on the other hand, was widely protested, and audience members...
...speech, which coincided with the fortieth anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre, in which the military killed 67 South Africans during peaceful protests, was particularly emotional at times, with members of the audience wiping tears from their eyes at times...
...downright un-American that they were forced to pay an annual $331 student activity fee that empowers some causes they abhor, including the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Campus Center and the Students of National Organization for Women (which supports abortion rights). The students' lawyers likened the fee to the "compelled speech" the Court outlawed last year in a ruling that banned labor unions from requiring fees for their PACs. But this was different, the Court said, because unlike labor unions, the student union that administers the fund has no political agenda and doles the funds out on an ideology-neutral basis...