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...visit by the former Harvard graduate student marks the next chapter in Trivers’ bitter feud over Israeli policy with Harvard Law School professor Alan M. Dershowitz, whose influence, Trivers alleges, was instrumental in preventing Trivers from speaking at the University in the past...
...feud between the two professors dates back to last spring, when Dershowitz publicly criticized Trivers for what he perceived as a physical threat. According to Dershowitz, Trivers sent a letter telling the law professor to “look forward to a visit from me” if he did not end his vocal support for Israeli military action against Lebanon...
...feud between the two professors boiled over last May when Trivers was scheduled to give a talk at Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics...
...Bill Clinton said he hoped the rhetoric will "mellow out," though he understands that "we're going to have a few arguments - this is a contact sport. Sometimes when you have a family feud it's harder than when you have a feud with someone in a different clan because you have to dig deeper to find where the difference...
...never really went away, of course: the feud between the majority Sinhalese and minority Tamils, which has killed some 70,000 people since 1983, merely settled to a low simmer, with hundreds dying in skirmishes over the years and full-fledged battles breaking out in 2006 and continuing into 2007. But the abandonment of a political solution has burst whatever remained of the dam that held Sri Lanka's bloodshed in check. In the first days of this new year, fighting has killed more than 150 combatants on both sides, including the Tigers' head of military intelligence...