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Newsweek however said that Goldsmith is not an “executive-power absolutist” and that he had argued in favor of the applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention to U.S. actions in Iraq...
...intellectual arrogance” in judging the relative merits of fields of scholarship—and revealed how he polarized the Faculty as well.“It’s an invitation to colleagues to form little cabals against each other in currying presidential favor,” Ellison said. “I do not believe in this approach to interacting with University faculty.”And at a 2001 lunch, Summers proposed that the University divert funds from a sociology program to the Kennedy School of Government, Ellison told the Globe.“President Summers...
...first type of divestment demand is first and foremost a tactic used by organizers to manufacture an opportunity to talk about the actual issues. In this light, Summers did the petition-circulators an immense favor: he catapulted a hopeless divestment call from obscure e-mail lists to the pages of The New York Times. Summers likely did this to establish in the national press a strong test for discrimination with respect to anti-Semitism. (Summers, notably, would never support such strong a test for discrimination on any other issue.) He harnessed the same power of the divestment demand that...
Policies under the act favor school districts with smaller enrollment and school districts that are more homogenous...
...evidence has emerged to suggest that the Shockeys or Lewis have violated the law. Though a Republican, Shockey the lobbyist checked his loyalties enough to seek favor with key Democrats to the tune of $6,750 in campaign contributions. Much of it went to high-profile Appropriations Democrats-such as $1,000 each to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi; House panel members Patrick Kennedy and John Murtha, who would later lambast President Bush over the Iraq war; and Senator Diane Feinstein-along with the many more thousands he showered on GOP members. "This ethically challenged behavior should speak volumes about...