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...Drezner, called it “piss-poor, monocausal social science.” And the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America issued a statement claiming that “a student who submitted such a paper would flunk.”But the most furious criticism was heard a few blocks north of Walt’s office from Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, who wrote prolifically to attack the article, called its authors “liars” and “bigots,” and challenged them to a public...
...told the filmmaker his Miami hometown was more dangerous than Baghdad, "I followed that lead like you would as a journalist," says Gittoes. And what that led to is Rampage, the documentary that has its Australian premiere at the Sydney Film Festival next week. In 103 fast-and-furious minutes, we meet Lovett's neighborhood of Brown Sub. It's Miami Vice without the pastel suits and palm trees, a no-go zone where AK-47s are the weapons of choice and violent crime runs rife. Gittoes' energetic camera records a life for the Lovett family no less harrowing than...
...Tehran, two Harvard alums were among the 53 Americans held captive by a group of student revolutionaries in 1980. In Cambridge, Iranian students witnessed America’s furious reaction to this standoff and worried that they would become scapegoats. The 444 tense days of the Iranian hostage crisis marked the political climate of the Class of 1981’s four years at the College and shaped the social atmosphere they would enter after graduation.Every night during the crisis, Americans tuned in to ABC’s “The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage?...
...What came out of this furious schooling was an amalgam of all these influences that Dylan forged into his own ornery persona. It was as cannily career-minded as it was artistically valid. Dylan mystified and promoted himself, inventing a biography that included being a seven-time runaway and a carny roustabout (he had done nothing of the sort) and putting his own name in his song titles ("Bob Dylan's Blues," "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream"). He knew he had lucked into being the right man at the right time: "America was changing. I had a feeling of destiny...
Public fisticuffs come fast and furious on the web, and there is no better example than the sudden outburst of chatter about John McCain's speech at the commencement ceremonies of The New School. During his address to students of the liberal New York City institution last week, McCain was booed and jeered by some of the students. He was given a gentler rebuke from the podium by one of the student speakers, Jean Rohe, who said McCain's support for the Iraq war "does not reflect the ideals upon which this university was founded." McCain himself seemed unfazed...