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...existing database has already enjoyed considerable popularity. The database’s most popular clip last week was footage of a debate between MIT linguist Noam Chomsky and Harvard’s Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, who verbally sparred at a Nov. 29 event entitled “Israel & Palestine After Disengagement: Where Do We Go From Here?” The clip was viewed 379 times...
When I showed him a draft of this speech, outgoing Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan advised me that such bleak language would send the stock market careening into a plunge worse than the dive following 9/11. And that, my fellow Americans, is the mindset that I wish to change with this speech. America is not defined by its invincibility, nor should it be. Vulnerability is not the trait that will destroy America; rather, the danger comes from purposeful blindness and denial...
...plot? Oh, never mind, except to note that it sidles up to the hero's birth and impromptu, painfully comic circumcision. What matters here is the casting of the two--sorry, six--leads. Steve Coogan, the Brit comic best known for incarnating Alan Partridge, a suavely unknowing TV host, plays four roles: Tristram, his father, Sterne and a put-upon egomaniac star named Steve Coogan. Rob Brydon, who has worked often with Coogan, plays Tristram's Uncle Toby and "Rob Brydon." Much of the film's grace and brass come from their comic kinship, as when they compare Pacino impressions...
...first, by Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, was prompted by the release of Steven Spielberg’s film “Munich,” which portrays Israel’s efforts to avenge the murders of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games by the terrorist group Black September...
...January 23 news article "HLS Profs Weigh in on Targeted Killings" stated that a 2002 book by Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz "drew fire from many civil libertarians because it advocated torture of terror suspects in certain instances." While critics of Dershowitz have made those claims, the article should have noted that Dershowitz' book, "Why Terrorism Works," does not recommend torture. And Dershowitz has stated publicly, including in The Scottsman newspaper in May 2004, that he is "personally opposed to torture...