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One year ago, I wrote a piece exposing radical Islam within Florida Atlantic University (FAU). My goal was twofold: [1] to bring awareness concerning a growing problem within FAU [2] to push the university to take action so that this problem ceases to exist. Unfortunately, only the first part of my goal was accomplished, as FAU is continuing to allow radicals on its campus, the latest being this Saturday'S (Jan.22, 2005) return engagement of potential co-conspirator to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, Siraj Wahhaj. The Enemy Thrives at FAU In recent times, a fairly large list of...

NO CRUELER TYRANNIES A Priest's StoryNot all accounts of sex abuse in the Catholic Church turn out to be true.BY DOROTHY RABINOWITZSaturday, April 30, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT Nine years after he had been convicted and sent to prison on charges of sexual assault against a teenage boy, Father Gordon MacRae received a letter in July 2003 from Nixon Peabody LLP, a law firm representing the Diocese of Manchester, N.H. Under the circumstances--he was a priest serving a life term--and after all he had seen, the cordial-sounding inquiry should not perhaps have chilled him as much as it did.". . . an individual...

Like many women of a certain age, I have a bad habit, first learned in the 1960s and '70s. Whenever I'm in a professional setting, I count the number of women in the room. These days there are occasions when I don't have enough fingers and toes to do the job. Which brings me to the present, and an ugly little spat that is roiling the waters of opinion journalism in the same way that Lawrence Summers's comments about the dearth of women in math and science rocketed through the academy. Op-ed pages, the accepted wisdom insists, don't carry enough...

Just over a week after the cancellation of Ward Churchill's visit to Hamilton, The Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz has announced that she is stepping down as director of the Kirkland Project, effective immediately. Rabinowitz announced her decision in a press release sent to The Spectator late Thursday evening. "Hamilton College finds itself in the midst of a crisis that is deeply rooted in the institution's history and set against a backdrop of increasing political and cultural tension. Much of the resulting media attack has been directed personally at me as Director of the Kirkland...

College Official Resigns Over Speaker Fri Feb 11, 4:42 PM ET U.S. National - AP CLINTON, N.Y. - The head of a gender studies program at Hamilton College has resigned after igniting a furor by inviting to the campus a professor who likened the Sept. 11 victims to Nazis. Nancy Rabinowitz said she was stepping down "under duress" as director of the Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society and Culture. She will continue to teach comparative literature. Rabinowitz resigned in a telephone call Thursday to the college's president. On Feb. 3, she extended a speaking invitation to University...

CLINTON, N.Y. (AP) _ A Hamilton College program director has resigned after igniting a furor by inviting to the campus a controversial professor who compared Sept. 11 victims to Nazis. Nancy Rabinowitz said she was resigning "under duress" as director of the Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society and Culture. She will continue to teach comparative literature. Rabinowitz resigned in a telephone call Thursday night to College President Joan Hinde Stewart. Her resignation is effective immediately, the school said.........

By now, it is well known that New York state's Hamilton College invited, then uninvited, to its campus a radical professor who has repeatedly stated the victims of 9/11 deserved to die. What is less well known is that the professor who sponsored Ward Churchill's talk has a long history of radicalizing her college, shares ideological and family ties to domestic terrorists -- and is still being well-compensated for her efforts to spread anti-American hatred among that college's student body. Nancy Rabinowitz, who started teaching at Hamilton in 1978, is Hamilton College's professor of Comparative Literature and director of the...

Oh, this is the most embarrassing turn of events in a CBS farce since Ricky brought Cesar Romero home for dinner and Lucy burnt the roast. What more can one say about that zany grayhead Dan Rather and Mary Mapes, stuck in the less-glamorous Ethel Mertz role of sidekick/accomplice? Plenty. We knew that Dorothy Rabinowitz, the wonderfully acidic TV columnist for the Wall Street Journal, would have something grand to say about the daffy Democrat duo’s bungling attempts to break into the candidate-assassination business. A few of the many highlights from Rabinowitz’s column today: She fillets the anchorman for trying...

Wall Street Journal pundit Dorothy Rabinowitz - who last month penned an acid assault on the "Jersey Girls," four 9/11 widows who've dared to criticize the Bush administration - received some payback yesterday at the hands of "Jersey Girl" Kristin Breitweiser. The 33-year-old widow of portfolio manager Ron Breitweiser, who died in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, gleefully shared with the Daily News Rabinowitz's intemperate and insulting response to Breitweiser's recent op-ed submission to the Journal enumerating "systemic" problems with government efforts to meet the terrorist threat. In a message meant for Journal deputy editorial page editor...

<p>Americans are beginning to tire of them.</p> <p>Wednesday, April 14, 2004 12:01 a.m.</p> <p>"I watched my husband murdered live on TV. . . . At any point in time the casualties could have been lessened, and it seems to me there wasn't even an attempt made."</p>

<p>Dorothy Rabinowitz, the sexy, five-foot-tall Wall Street Journal columnist andeditorial board member, hosted a dinner party recently at a downtown restaurant and, for a good 20 minutes, she smiled as her guests denounced Attorney General John Ashcroft.</p> <p>Finally, she let it rip.</p> <p>“I revere John Ashcroft,” she said.</p>

<p>By the week's end, the air of sober restraint emanating from Howard Dean and all of his pronouncements had begun to seem a touch eerie. Holding forth at a Women for Dean rally, the doctor delivered prescriptions on domestic policy issues--a performance that was, by any standard, a model of restraint. At one point the candidate was even moved to explain, carefully, that he didn't mean that those currently running the government's misbegotten social policies should be sent packing because of any immorality in them; the problem was, simply, that time had passed them by. This astounding piece of large-heartedness could only have been a reflection of the new Dean spawned by the post-Iowa debacle--a transformation that seemed to take notably little time. Helping that transformation along were his wife, Dr. Judith Dean, and also his mother and brother, all in New Hampshire, we were informed, to help warm the candidate up.</p>

<p>Five weeks before the New Hampshire primary, Wesley Clark stands over a stove mixing batter, the star attraction at one of the quadrennial pancake breakfasts to which all the candidates find their way. Intent on the task at hand, Mr. Clark rattles smoothly on about the way this is supposed to be done -- the trick is getting the little bubbles just right and the thickness can't be excessive, for various reasons he'd clearly be prepared to go into at some length, if anyone cared. Even at this fun enterprise the candidate's powerful didactic streak is on display, as is his pleasure in this occasion packed with friendly faces and fans lining up for autographs.</p>

<p>Frenzy mounts uncontrolled over John Ashcroft, now considered -- in those quarters touched by the delirium -- enemy number one of the Bill of Rights, the Constitution and all that Americans hold dear. What is the cause of these fevers? Is there a doctor in the house?</p>

The trouble with so many of Ann Coulter's critics is they're conspicuously ill-informed. Take for instance, their attacks on the late Sen. Joe McCarthy, the legendary anti-Communist she champions in her current best seller, Treason. When Fox News's Bill O'Reilly said McCarthy "demonized people who didn't deserve to be demonized," Coulter shot back: "Name one." O'Reilly balked for a moment, then boldly proclaimed: "I'll name one. Dalton Trumbo." O'Reilly was breathtakingly mistaken. When Coulter countered McCarthy "had nothing to do with Trumbo," O'Reilly blithely compounded his error. "Sure, he did," he said, and then plowed ahead, "It was a House...

<p>No questions, they told me about phony sex-abuse charges. I asked anyway.</p> <p>My first encounter with the power of the sacrosanct accusation--the one no one was supposed to question--came when I was a television commentator at WWOR in New Jersey. I looked up at a row of monitors in the studio, all of them filled with pictures of a young woman just convicted on hundreds of counts of sexual abuse of the most grotesque kind--a lifetime's work, if they were all to be believed--and I began to wonder. A wonder born, not of particular concern, but of curiosity.</p>