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Duke University’s African and African-American Studies Department has hired a “political prisoner” and “anti-imperialist” activist to address students. Well, not really-but at least that’s what they’re telling people. On March 3, Laura Whitehorn will speak to “Teaching Race, Teaching Gender,” a class taught by Becky Thompson, a visiting professor in Duke’s African and African-American Studies Department. Whitehorn, who was released from federal prison in 1999 after serving 14 years of a 23-year sentence, was convicted in 1985 of planting a bomb in the U.S. Capitol building two years earlier. This part of her resume somehow didn’t make it into the...

OK. Just when you think you've heard it all, along come the left-wingers with an even MORE outrageous stunt. Get this... On March 3, 2003, a certain Laura Whitehorn is scheduled to speak for the African and African-American studies program at Duke University in North Carolina. Here's how the university is billing Ms. Whitehorn on their website: "Laura Whitehorn is a revolutionary anti-imperialist who spent over 14 years in federal prison as a political prisoner. An out lesbian, she initiated and worked in HIV peer education and support projects in each of the three federal prisons in which she did...