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Not so sweet: The limits of decorum

Not so sweet: The limits of decorum

Having lived within ivy-covered walls for almost six years, I possess a strong sense that academic events demand a certain level of decorum ? ask questions when called upon, don't raise your voice and address the speaker with respect and appropriate honorifics.

OPINION | 10/14/2001

Seeking escape from a solipsistic worldview

I know most recent 'Prince' columns have discussed rather serious problems: politics, international diplomacy and the ethics of dealing with terrorism and conflict.

OPINION | 10/14/2001

What has America done to deserve murder?

I am starting to hear something somewhat disturbing about the Sept. 11 attack on the United States.

OPINION | 10/11/2001

Letters to the Editor

Fighting the brigades of bigotryAs the federal government preoccupies itself with fighting the war against terror, it must not neglect the terror that Americans can inflict on one another at home.

OPINION | 10/11/2001

Defining model labor policy

If you were on campus last year, you probably heard about the Workers' Rights Organizing Committee, the group of students, faculty and staff who have been fighting to get a better deal for Princeton's low-wage workers.

OPINION | 10/11/2001

Are we really trying to 'free' Afghanistan?

Whether bombing Afghanistan is right or wrong ? whether by freeing the country the West is once again imposing its culture on a nation or is actually doing what the majority of Afghan citizens want ? why did no country, no organization decide that Afghanistan needed more than humanitarian help all these years while the Taliban was gaining power and structuring its regime?

OPINION | 10/10/2001

Time for some peace and quiet on the 'Street'

For several years, and most recently in this month's U-Council and Graduate Inter-Club Council meetings, the University community has spent a lot of time talking about reducing alcohol use and abuse on campus.

OPINION | 10/10/2001

Letters to the Editor

Seeking alternative policies against terrorismMichael Frazer GS's Oct. 10 column "Empire Strikes Back" unfairly caricatures the premises and aims of the antiwar movement.

OPINION | 10/10/2001

Empire strikes back

I'm glad that our Tomahawk cruise missiles and B-2 bombers are reducing the terrorist bases and military infrastructure of Afghanistan to piles of ash and rubble.

OPINION | 10/09/2001

Letters to the Editor

America benefits the rest of the worldI extend my sympathies to those readers who were puzzled by the mixture of academic jargon and random pedantic references to philosophers in professor Arno Mayer's Oct.

OPINION | 10/09/2001

Bin Laden's goal

Since the horrific terrorist attacks on New York and Washington by Osama bin Laden's Islamic radicals, it has become fashionable in Arab circles and among their Western supporters to blame it all on U.S.

OPINION | 10/09/2001

Letters to the Editor

Where our appeasement has led usFixation on short-term consequences often leads to long-term disasters.

OPINION | 10/08/2001

Preserving the safety of our lives and our liberties

For better or worse, most people would agree that alcohol use ? and more commonly, abuse ? has become part of mainstream American college life.

OPINION | 10/08/2001

The amoral politics of war and terror

Since the World Trade Center attack, a strain of thought has circulated around this country that the terrorists who committed this attack are evil and that their supporters, chiefly Osama bin Laden, are evil.

OPINION | 10/08/2001

Pride and not prejudice

Gay? Lesbian? Bi? We've all seen these signs around campus and perhaps some of us have wondered what they are all about.

OPINION | 10/07/2001

Letters to the Editor

The importance of open debatePolitics professor Patrick Deneen's remarkably condescending recommendation in his Oct.

OPINION | 10/07/2001

A tentative step

While it seems strange to talk of peace when our country has just yesterday commenced air strikes in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept.

OPINION | 10/07/2001

Untimely reflections upon the state of the world

Editor's Note: A shorter version of this column ran in Le Monde, September 27.This is a time to reject the temptation or superstition of fixing on a single cause for the loss of America's 'splendid' invulnerability and exceptionalism on Sept.

OPINION | 10/04/2001

The wrong side of paradise: Forging a warped world view

While the recent terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have caused millions of Americans pain, sorrow and grief, they have at the same time brought Americans closer together, forging new bonds of shared calamity and uniting millions in anticipation of a war against a common enemy.

OPINION | 10/04/2001

Conspiracy of the week

For a long time I thought that Americans had a corner on the trade in conspiracy theories, but I now see that we command less market share than I had believed.

OPINION | 10/03/2001

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