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Despite their defeat at the hands of Miyamoto, the 2008 poll will almost certainly be remembered for the epic battle fought between Colbert and Rain. If 2007's poll - in which Colbert created his own Korean pop video in an attempt to outshine Rain - was a World War I of meaninglessness, 2008 was far bloodier. Colbert mocked Rain on various outlets and pleaded with viewers to vote for him while Rain valiantly fought back, sending Colbert a video taunt that advised him to "keep your day job." Colbert countered by proposing a dance...
...example, in an attempt to prove that “racism doesn’t always prevent minorities from prospering,” he claims that before the Civil Rights Movement blacks had a higher labor force participation rate than whites, but after the movement, they had a lower participation rate. First, this participation rate does not equal prosperity. If participation in the labor force were the definition of prosperity, then black tenant farmers would have been defined as more prosperous than their white landlords. Second, though a greater proportion of blacks may have been in the labor force before...
...entrance to the lecture hall distributing single sheets of paper with controversial Chomsky quotations on one side and an article attesting to the “True History of 1948” on the other. HSI had previously approached Nakba on Dershowitz’s behalf in an unsuccessful attempt to have the law professor debate Chomsky. “Chomsky always needs to have a truth squad following him around, and I offered to debate him on the Nakba, and apparently the Nakba refused to do that,” Dershowitz said in an interview. After the event, Chomsky...
...People often confuse Harvard University Art Museums with simply the Fogg, so this is an attempt to remedy that discrepancy, but it’s yet to be seen if that will actually work,” Lessersohn said...
...Nakba 101” week that was organized by the Harvard Nakba Committee. Dershowitz said he asked to debate Chomsky, but the committee cited a fixed schedule as reason not to host a debate. Dershowitz called the lack of a debate an “attempt to present their narrative unchallenged.” Though Dershowitz said he “wants to look forward,” most of his discussion—which attracted about 50 people—focused on the past. He called the Nakba a “self-inflicted wound” brought...