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...publication of the essay prompted an unusually vitriolic debate in academic circles worldwide. The professors drew criticism from high-profile scholars including Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz and MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, while earning praise from others, like New York University historian Tony Judt...
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...established the USA Freedom Corps. One of the early critics of AmeriCorps, John McCain, has since become a devout supporter. "National service is an issue that has been largely identified with the Democratic Party and the left of the political spectrum," McCain wrote in a 2001 Washington Monthly essay. "That is unfortunate, because duty, honor and country are values that transcend ideology...National service is a crucial means of making our patriotism real, to the benefit of both ourselves and our country...
...schools few readers are likely to have heard of. (Bryn Athyn College of the New Church, anyone?) Sarah Lawrence had been ranked No. 45, but because the school decided to stop collecting applicants' SAT scores Sarah Lawrence is no longer listed anywhere near its highly competitive peers. In an essay published in the Washington Post last March, the college's president emeritus complained publicly that U.S. News was planning to calculate a peer-based statistic, or as she said, to "make up a number," to fill this important ranking criterion...
...Slim Truth Re Steve Rushin's essay "How Friends Make You Fat" [Aug. 13]: If it's true that friends make you fat, then Rushin failed to mention how friends make you drunk, how friends make you stupid and how friends make you lazy. Same logic, different situations. Americans need to wake up and take responsibility for themselves and their actions. We should let our friends own their own problems. Teresa J. Black, Mount Vernon, Illinois