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...this case, at least, the clothes aren’t everything. De la Durantaye’s youthful face and blithe reputation belie a deep academic seriousness. True, he referenced the White Stripes in a recent Village Voice essay. But he also quoted Shakespeare, Victor Hugo, and the sixteenth century Chinese artist Ding Yunpeng...
KRAUTHAMMER'S ESSAY ECHOED THE thoughts of many Americans. Although war is never without pain and suffering, we realized after 9/11 that we had better start addressing the problems of the Middle East. In response to 9/11, the U.S. government went after individuals in Afghanistan and Iraq who were connected to terrorist activity. The result has been to bring insurgents to justice and to foster the emergence of two fledgling democracies. The free elections in those countries will perhaps inspire others to follow, thus spreading democracy...
...says the former-thesis-writer-turned-anxious-job-applicant. “But,” she casually adds, “I did compose a senior essay concerning North Korean defectors, their effects on American industry and, in turn, climate change...
Just months before this latest flap, in an essay for Harvard’s alumni magazine, Summers argued for a measure of autonomy as the University’s chief...
...recent weeks many academics have rallied to the defense of Ward Churchill, an unkempt University of Colorado professor who, in a published essay, referred to victims of the September 11 attacks as “little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers.” It is tellingly hypocritical that some of these same academics now seek to strong-arm Harvard’s president for raising a plausible and empirically testable hypothesis at an academic conference...