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Benjamin J. Toff

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Reflections on Protesting

By Benjamin J. Toff Like so many other students and activists, workers and professionals, I went to New York for


A Tax Proposal Destined to Fall Flat

If Al Gore would’ve said anything to get elected, then maybe George W. Bush’s key to victory is not to


Why I'll Be in New York

TUCSON, Ariz.—Dear President Bush: Ten years from now, I do not want to live in a world of random violence


My Last Picture Show

I’m nostalgic for an era I never knew. Not just any era, but (even more absurd, I know) an era


My Last Picture Show

I’m nostalgic for an era I never knew. Not just any era, but (even more absurd, I know) an era


Asking for Help at Harvard

Living in a community that has endured two apparent suicides over the past year and a half, I have at


Out of Touch, But Not out of Office

The Bush-Cheney reelection website contains an ingenious propaganda device allowing supporters to piece together letters to the editors of their


Statues of Victory, Shadows of War

The images of impassioned Iraqis taking sledgehammers to a statue of Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad flooded the airwaves on