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...speech yesterday, veteran Harvard Law School professor Alan M. Dershowitz said that his longtime rival, retired MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, was “a Holocaust denier, a denier of history, a denier of reality and the truth...
While the remarks are among the more vitriolic uttered by professors around Harvard, they are reflective of harsh words that the two have been exchanging for decades. (While Chomsky largely avoided Dershowitz in his speech last night, he did take a swipe at Dershowitz’s book, “The Case for Israel...
...have some common ground—both are Jewish civil libertarians who consider themselves member of the left—they diverge sharply when it comes to Israel. Chomsky, a cognitive linguistic, is noted for his heated criticisms of both the Jewish state and American foreign policy, while Dershowitz has emerged as one of Israel's most prominent ideological supporters in the United States...
...fact for quite a bit longer than that. Ed Reingold and Nachum Dershowitz, co-authors of the books Calendrical Calculations and Calendrical Tabulations, determined how often in the period between 1600 and 2400 A.D. Good Friday, Purim, Narouz and the Eid would occur in the same week. The answer is nine times in 800 years. Then they tackled the odds that they would converge on a two-day period. And the total is ... only once: tomorrow. And that's not even counting Magha Puja and Small Holi...
...Eliot L. Spitzer worked as a research assistant for one of his professors. Today, that professor has come to Spitzer’s defense as the governor of New York finds himself embroiled in a public controversy after evidence surfaced linking him to a prostitution ring. Alan M. Dershowitz has talked to various media outlets, including ABC’s Boston affiliate and the New York Times, about his take on the situation, in the midst of widespread criticism and numerous calls for Spitzer’s immediate resignation. “Men don’t use their brains...