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Anthony Lewis' Times column is another in his recent series of pieces excoriating the INS.
David Horowitz, right-wing firebrand and head of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, has taken out an ad in six college newspapers excoriating "tenured radicals" for defending the distorted autobiographical writings of Guatemalan Nobel laureate and activist Rigoberta Menchú.
A number of excellent suggestions to help people avoid the inadvertent expression of prejudice are offered, albeit interspersed among excoriating, castigatory comments that are entirely irrelevant to The Cause, hence diminish the impact and strength of purpose of both.
The story quotes the NYT editorial page editor, Howell Raines, as saying that he knew absolutely nothing about this when he recently wrote an editorial excoriating the TV arrangement.
In Canada, the Toronto Globe and Mail ran an op-ed piece by the New York publisher of Harper's magazine, John R. MacArthur, excoriating Howell Raines, the editorial page editor of the New York Times , for setting "some kind of record for sanctimonious nonsense" in his paper's comments on Flytrap.