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Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz is a tough critic. He criticized the Rhode Island Bar for anti-Semitism. He castigated professors too timid to challenge University President Lawrence H. Summers, calling them “victims of cowardice.” He so rarely has anything positive to say that his praise of Laurie B. Puhn ’99 author of Instant Persuasion, the Coop’s featured book last week, speaks volumes...
Barbara J. Grosz, Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences and chair of the science and engineering task force—and a pointed critic of Summers in recent weeks—spoke at the beginning of the meeting, but left the students to work the details out themselves...
...surprising success of Iraq's election, the leaders share more common ground than they have in years. Germany is training 500 Iraqi soldiers in the United Arab Emirates, and France says it is ready to train gendarmes. European soldiers are keeping the peace in Afghanistan, and even a Bush critic like Schröder knows that transatlantic cooperation is essential. "Most problems we are grappling with today can and will be solved only through real partnership with the U.S.," the German Chancellor told Time (see interview...
Fitzgerald's probe was launched after syndicated columnist Robert Novak revealed the identity of Valerie Plame, a covert CIA officer who is the wife of Joseph Wilson, a retired U.S. diplomat and an early postwar critic of the President's prewar justification for the Iraq invasion. Wilson figures in the story because he made a secret trip to Niger in 2002 at the CIA's request to determine if that country had sold a uranium ore known as yellowcake to Iraq, a key piece of evidence for the Administration's claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Wilson...
...alumni, we have a right to be concerned. The University should, in the words of the University of Chicago’s Kalven Report, be a home of critics, rather than a critic itself. Perhaps, when a president speaks on politics—even off-the-record, and in a personal capacity—that barrier is crossed. Yet whether the subject is women in science, Afro-American studies, or Paulin, Summers’ comments have been subject to withering criticism from faculty and students alike. What intelligent person could read the papers and conclude that all of Harvard thinks...