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...chief lesson Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Class of 1861, took from his time fighting in the Civil War, according to Bass Professor of English Louis Menand, is that “certitude leads to violence”—that a dogmatic confidence in one’s beliefs and an unwillingness to compromise begets conflict and war. If Holmes, a former Harvard professor, were to return to Cambridge today and look to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), he would be disappointed to see that certitude has wracked this institution he loved so dearly, leading to four...
Halberstam’s time with the Times Leader ended abruptly when he was fired for his coverage of the Civil Rights movement after only one year, according to his wife, Jean Halberstam. He went on to work at the Nashville Tennessean, a job which his wife said he loved...
...bill, filed in late May by Republican Senator John Cornyn, takes aim at the trade by forbidding prisoners from using the U.S. Postal Service to deliver or receive items for profit. The bill has been referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee, where it is likely to face criticism from civil-liberties groups and support from victims' rights advocates...
...Murderauction.com's Bohannon, whose passion for his true-crime hobby began as a teenager hanging out at the county jail with his deputy sheriff father, uses a U.K. server to host his site since he claims Kahan has intimidated his U.S.-based hosts, warning them that they could face civil litigation...
...bill does cause some concerns," says Marv Johnson, legal counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington, D.C. "It's a bit too broad and does raise some First Amendment issues by affecting protected activity...