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...achieved this goal by devising a number of programs that rewarded high-quality scholarship. More importantly, in his speeches and analyses of problems at that university and in the wider society, he exemplified what it means to be a thoughtful analyst, rather than a glib or judgmental one.Freedman also confronted a crisis on campus: an increasingly malicious publication called the Dartmouth Review. For a time, Freedman followed the advice of others and ignored the excesses of that publication. But when the Review published anti-black and anti-Semitic material and personally attacked both faculty members and Freedman?...
...once you got it out of the basement of the corrections departments, with the people who have been delegated a lot of authority for carrying out executions but are largely invisible to the public, and up to the penthouse of the medical establishment. Now, the public will have to confront an issue they've never really had to face, even though it's been going on for centuries...
...It’s extraordinarily sad that it came to this,” said McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering Frederick H. Abernathy, one of the Summers critics who emerged from the woodwork to confront the president at an explosive meeting of the full Faculty two weeks...
...Harvard community members) must actually see the images rather than accept mere second-hand accounts of their supposed religious insensitivity. The Salient’s bold move threw these cartoons into the limelight, as any student who glanced at the issue’s back page was forced to confront the images of the Prophet. When any paper chooses to publish these cartoons—be it the Salient, or Jyllands-Posten, or any other newspaper—we support that right. The marketplace functions only with a free and uninhibited press and on the inviolable premise that valuable...
...Maryland legislature will consider the change this week but is unlikely to adopt it. The amendment may never emerge from the judiciary committee, given that the body is run by a former defense attorney. Many defense attorneys argue that the constitutional right to confront one's accuser in court is too important to discard. And, says city of Baltimore public defender Elizabeth Julian, "it's too hard to prove exactly why a witness didn't come to court...