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Individual editorials took more polarized positions. Human rights groups and their supporters argued that Pinochet was a murderer and a tyrant, citing statistics that have been printed and reprinted over the past month: 3,000 or more killed or disappeared, “thousands?? tortured. Meanwhile, Pinochet supporters offered counterfactuals that claimed many more would have died had Chile continued its “road to socialism.” They told of a government that was collapsing in upon itself without any help from the outside. They referenced the relatively low number killed in Chile versus other...
...Wrigley Field, when I walk up the tunnel, a veritable concrete time warp, and take my seat among hundreds—thousands??of chattering college-age kids, I’m reminded of America’s honest, ageless love affair with the game...
...proposition. The new issue of the magazine, which hit newsstands on Oct. 10, features the cover story “We Had Abortions,” a medley of testimonials by women who elected to abruptly terminate their pregnancies. The feature includes a petition signed by “thousands?? of other women attesting to having had an abortion. It tries to be harrowing, introspective, and devastating, but mostly comes across as silly and intellectually incoherent. The most widely deployed rationale among pro-choicers justifies abortion as a private matter, a kind of tragic decision of women affecting...
...views on the “personal and professional qualities” that the next president should possess, as well as views on “any individuals you believe are deserving of serious consideration.” Wrinn said he estimates the committee will receive “thousands?? of responses to its request. Letters are being accepted via e-mail at psearch@harvard.edu or by postal mail to Loeb House, 17 Quincy Street. Houghton could not be reached for comment last night, and Harvard spokesman John D. Longbrake declined to comment. —Staff writer Javier...
...degradation of a fellow human being. But the Harvard Law School Federalist Society thought nothing of inviting Judge Jay S. Bybee, whose infamous “torture memo” of August 2002 gave the thumbs-up to the degradation of hundreds—if not thousands??of human beings, to give a speech on constitutional law.By not only hosting Bybee but guaranteeing him a forum free of dissent, the Federalist Society has made Harvard complicit in an ongoing whitewash. To understand how Bybee’s reputation has been laundered, we need to look briefly...