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By Janet Lorin / BloombergDecember 8, 2023 12:05 AM ESTThe presidents of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania were forced to issue statements clarifying their responses to a U.S. congressional hearing on antisemitism after a barrage of criticism from business leaders and politicians that shows few signs of abating.Harvards Claudine Gay and Penns Liz Magi stanley cup ll were lambasted for refusing to say at the Dec. 5 event that calling for th stanley cup e genocide of Jews is against school policy, instead offering narrow legal responses.The presidents backtracked in the face of widespread denunciations of their performances at the hearing, which also included Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth.Pfizer Inc. Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla, whose grandparents, aunt and uncle perished in the Holocaust, called it one of the most despicable moments in the history of U.S. academia. Investor Bill Ackman said they must all resign in disgrace while Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro slammed Magills initial response as shameful and unacceptable. Read More: Its Not Easy to Be Jewish on American Campuses TodayThey even drew a rebuke from the White House. Its unbelievable that this needs to be said: Calls for genocide are monstrous and antithetical to everything we represent as a country, stated Andrew Bates, a White House spokesman. Any statements that advocate for the systematic murder of Jews are dangerous and revolting 鈥?and we should all stand fi stanley cup rmly a Baac Army Official: Fort Hood Shooter s Mental Health May Not Be to Blame for Massacre
The line outside a Trump rally in Nashville in the spring. Trumps 2016 victory continued the GOPs dominance of Southern politicsLuke Sharrett鈥擝loomberg/Getty ImagesIdeasBy David FrenchJuly 26, 2018 7:17 AM EDTFrench is a senior editor at The Dispatch and a columnist for Time. His new book is Divided We Fall: A af1 merica s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation. He is a former major in the United States Army Reserve.There is no accent quite like the southern accent, and there is no Southern accent quite like the Southern politician . Spend any time in the Southespecially in th jordan e rapidly growing suburban and exurban Southand you ;ll hear the drawl. The men sound just a tiny bit folksier, as if your doctor would be just as comfortable plowing a field as he would be reading an X-ray. The women just sound nice, so that the same word af1 s you hear in daily life across the U.S. somehow come off kinder and gentler.But there is nothingabsolutely nothing 8211 ubtle about the Southern politician accent. No sir. To hear the Southern politician talk is to hear the backwoods come to the big city. Their past profession doesn ;t matter. Neither does their upbringing. There something about runnin ; for office in the South that exaggerates that drawl and drops all those g .At its heart, Southern politics is cultural politics. That because Southern politics isn ;t just about the South as it isrepresenting its