Word: goliaths
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...Arab world, coming on top of the chaos and violence in Iraq. These officials say that the loss of goodwill because of Iraq's instability, coupled with the unstinting support for Israel, have moved many Arabs to admire Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah as a David confronting a Western Goliath. This movement in Arab popular opinion, American officials say, has not been lost on the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan, who are now said to be deeply concerned about the growing opposition movement fired with a combustible mix of extremist religion, rabid nationalism and class and sectarian divisions...
...case--a shy, bookish David against the brash, moneyed heir to a literary Goliath--could affect many scholars. U.S. copyright law can allow them to quote from sources for research, but Stephen Joyce says the law's scope is narrow. Shloss's attorney, fellow Stanford prof Lawrence Lessig, disagrees. He's working to protect scholars from aggressive tactics like Joyce's. Shloss says she just wants to guard her livelihood: "Why have writers and professors if we can't do our jobs...
...national programs to help communities diversify their work forces. Much of the audience consisted of past and present students of Mankiw’s introductory economics course, Social Analysis 10, “Principles of Economics,” while others had been lured by the fame of the Goliath scholars taking on the great debates in modern economics...
...Washington; no other country, or group of countries, has the will, the wallet, or the military muscle to attempt them. In that sense, Mandelbaum argues in a new book, the U.S. acts as the world's government, to the broad benefit of many outside its borders. The Case for Goliath is one of those works that invites the reader to look at the familiar in a new way; it would be nice, if optimistic, to think that it will be read carefully by those for whom knee-jerk anti-Americanism is a substitute for thought. For much of the post...
Surely this attention comes from many predictable sources. Hundreds of Harvard alums work in journalism. Our academics are, in a word, trumps. But some of the coverage derives from resentment—that all-American love of taking down the $25 billion Goliath...