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NEW SCHOOL MANNERS

Nobody asked us, but we have some advice for the students at New School University who recently marched angrily into the offices of president Bob Kerrey and demanded he resign because he has written and spoken about his support for ousting Saddam Hussein. Our advice is: Don't try to shut down your president's arguments. Try to persuade him with better ones. We think college and university presidents engaging and playing a role in the political dramas of the day provide a good example to students. We suspect that on the matter of US policy vis-à-vis Iraq we have some of the same reservations about Kerrey's position as many of you protesters do. So give him facts and figures. For a crash course in Iraq 101, see Michael Massing on page 17.

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