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...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...
...Memorial Hospital in Corpus to speak to Whittington, whom they found sitting up in a chair. He requested the conversation not be recorded because of his raspy voice, but promised a written affidavit after he was released from the hospital. "Mr. Whittington did speak of the incident and explained foremost there was no alcohol during the hunt and everyone was wearing the proper hunting attire of blaze orange," writes San Miguel. "While looking for the downed birds, he [Whittington] had returned back at one point to the hunting vehicles.." Katharine Armstrong, who was sitting with her sister Sarita, told...
Calling Dershowitz “one of America’s foremost legal minds”—and saying that he too would have been one had he ever applied to law school—Colbert began the interview by asking about the knife and “why it’s cutting...
...said Eck, the Wertham professor of law and psychiatry in society. Eck said that she was shocked when she learned that Ramadan, a Swiss citizen and currently a visiting professor at Oxford University, had been denied entry to the United States. “He is one of the foremost thinkers and interpreters of Islam and the West,” Eck said, acknowledging his reputation as an advocate of Muslim integration into Western society. “These are exactly the sorts of Muslim voices that we want to nurture,” she added. Under the guidance...
...Brave and the Bold” is, first and foremost, utterly confusing. As a collection of covers ranging from Devo to Don Williams, chosen for the first collaboration between shambler Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (Will Oldham) and math geeks Tortoise, both weird in their own ways, how could it not be? Still, as I listened through again and again, trying to put my finger on what exactly goes wrong, I found myself enjoying it more and more: confusing and confused as it is, there is something here, perhaps accidental, that manages to make it work...