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Michael Moore is many things--filmmaker, TV-show producer, best-selling author, hall-packing lecturer--and has been called many other things by his detractors. But first and foremost, he's a movie star...
...instead of cooking. Some chose not to clock out--and give up wages--for a meal break. "There are some people for whom the structure at work does not allow them to eat the way we recommend," says Carol Devine, a professor of nutritional sciences at Cornell and an author of the study. "We are not going to fix all of our obesity problems simply by telling people to eat more fruits and vegetables...
...author of the Beloit College Mindset List, I was happy to see Nancy Gibbs use it as a topic for her Essay [Sept. 21]. Even more welcome is that she infers from the list what my co-author and I do: that Arthur C. Clarke was right about the perils of predicting that any future technology is impossible. Such bold statements are likely to be wrong...
...noted Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz has written, those who support the Goldstone Report do so not by drawing on the contents of the report but merely by pointing to the author. “Had Richard Goldstone, a distinguished judge and a prominent Jew, not been the author of the United Nations Human Rights Council,” Dershowitz wrote recently, “it would be tossed in the trash barrel along with other one-sided and biased reports by this prejudice group with targets only Israel for human rights violations...
...assumption that the Goldstone Report is credible merely because its author happens to be Jewish is deeply problematic. To cite Goldstone’s Jewishness as the basis of his report’s credibility is to assume first that all Jews think alike and second that he should be celebrated for rising above what the world unfortunately perceives to be the “Jewish position” of unconditional support for Israel...