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...puff piece on secretary of State Condoleezza Rice neglected to remind readers of the dubious role she played in pumping up the rationale for invading Iraq. She misrepresented the Iraqi nuclear threat to the U.S. in a way that either was deliberately deceptive or showed ignorance of the truth. That failure ought to have been an instant disqualifier for someone in a position to shape U.S. policy. David DeFreese Hillsborough, New Jersey, U.S. Actor Richard Gere's article on the Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, was inspiring, informative and motivating. We should all be concerned with...
...takes a particular type of courage—the courage to be unpopular—to become a whistle-blower. Initially, Watkins, Cooper, and Rowley were warned to keep quiet but they kept talking, like generations of female truth-tellers before them. Look at Rosa Parks, who refused to move to the back of the bus, galvanizing the country’s civil rights movement. Retired Army Lt. General Claudia J. Kennedy, the highest-ranking female officer, was the one to expose sexual harassment in the armed forces. And it was Erin Brockovich, a minor legal clerk who helped...
...were shocked and dismayed by the falsifications and manipulations of truth contained in the Palestinian Solidarity Committee’s (PSC) advertisement, entitled, “Palestine in Brief,” which ran in The Crimson on April 26. Such distortions signal nothing less than the beginning of a malicious propaganda war aimed at slandering Israel...
...should also be noted that since the fence’s construction began, suicide bombings and other terrorist attacks in Israel have been drastically reduced. This has enabled the Israeli army to withdraw from several Palestinian cities and dismantle key checkpoints behind the barrier. The ad also manipulates the truth by failing to provide appropriate context for its claims. It states that “The wall ‘consists of 25 foot high concrete walls,’” but less than 4 percent of the barrier meets this description—primarily the section adjacent...
...truth is, it would have been amazing regardless...