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...this, my last word here on ABC, I quote Shakespeare, who said, 'All's well that ends well.' My time here now ends extremely well. Thank you." --DAVID BRINKLEY, ABC'S THIS WEEK...
Columbia kept negotiating, successfully pushing Ford for a narrower definition of what constitutes the school’s official speech, according to Columbia Provost Alan Brinkley...
...language that Harvard negotiated restricted the language of the grant only to what it called official speech and conduct of the university,” Brinkley says. “We felt that was still too broad…we wanted to make sure that they did not claim that official actions of the university included things like decisions of hiring faculty, curriculum and program development, [and] academic decision-making...
Columbia has taken some important and careful steps to examine the situation, and we applaud them for choosing the right approach. Columbia’s provost, Alan Brinkley, has pledged to fully investigate allegations raised in The David Project video. Additionally, the controversy has sparked a critical debate about the appropriate level of bias in an academic department. It is important, as this investigation and debate move forward that all parties involved make the requisite distinction between anti-Semitic bias and anti-Israeli political views—indeed, criticism of Israeli policies does not, in and of itself, constitute anti...
...country "is not yet ready for what it will witness and bear" if it goes to war. In the 1990s Kerry backed the use of force in the Balkans but criticized President Clinton as "arrogant" for referring to the U.S. as "the indispensable nation." Kerry's biographer, historian Douglas Brinkley, says, "Kerry is not a Wilsonian. He does not believe we have a moral mission to remake the world in our image." Whereas Bush talks about the "transformational power of liberty," Kerry is a gradualist. He pledged last week to take measures to support "modernizers" within nondemocratic countries rather than...