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| Townhall.com :: Columns :: An anti-American hero by John Leo - Mar 13, 2006 |
| Monday, March 13, 2006 |
| Townhall.com :: Columns :: An anti-American hero by John Leo - Mar 13, 2006: "Rachel Corrie, a young American woman accidentally flattened by an Israeli bulldozer during a protest in Gaza three years ago, is a hero to Palestinians and the anti-American left. When she died, a photo of her burning an American flag sealed her high status on the left. Her honors included many vigils, memorials, buildings named for her, at least two plays, an annual pancake breakfest and the Rachel Corrie Award for courage in the teaching of writing. Why helping people learn to write should require courage is not explained.
I have been planning for some time to write about America's peculiar awards, prizes and memorials, and the flourishing of Rachel Corrie awards is a good excuse to list some of them.
Stanford University gives the Allan Cox medal each year for faculty excellence in guiding student research. Cox was a professor of geophysics and dean of the school of earth sciences at Stanford. He committed suicide in 1987 while under investigation for sexually molesting the son of a former student. The molesting allegedly went on for five years, starting when the boy was 14. " |
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