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...which despite the oddity of being in the Netherlands had the fundamental task of judging a mass murder that occurred in Lockerbie. The court thus explicitly accepted testimony that al-Megrahi was a member of Libya's intelligence service but left it to others to draw further conclusions. Bert Ammerman, a New Jersey resident whose brother Tom was on the Pan Am flight, was quick to do so. "Al-Megrahi's conviction leads straight to the doorsteps of Gaddafi," he said after viewing the verdict on a closed-circuit broadcast in New York with dozens of other relatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lockerbie Verdict: Case Closed? | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...designed to be an enjoyable introduction to one type of linguistic research," says Bert R. Vaux, assistant professor of linguistics, a course for students looking for "something interesting rather than something technical and obscure...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Shopping Around | 2/2/2001 | See Source »

Then there's Associate Professor of Linguistics Bert R. Vaux...

Author: By Andrew J. Miller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Spoonful of Humor Makes the Lesson Go Down | 12/7/2000 | See Source »

...opinions and set new deadlines almost daily, and sometimes hourly, most of them designed to delay the hand recounts until they became moot. At first, the Gore lawyers were primed for battle, but by Tuesday night the mood turned somber. Daley was so tired that he began to resemble Bert the Muppet. Christopher at times looked absolutely ancient. As their anger and frustration rose, Harris became the woman they loved to hate, just as she did for Democrats around the country. If she wasn't taking her orders from Austin--and she swears she was not--she might as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: Prime-Time Battle | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...could talk about their silly vocabulary--"residential colleges," "teaching assistants," "majors"--but Harvard Assistant Professor of Linguistics Bert Vaux might take away my A- in Linguistics 80 for lambasting a group of people because they speak differently. Nontraditional dialects do not necessarily indicate ignorance...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Goin' Bohlen: Grabbing for That Same Slice of Pie | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

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