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...with something like 3,500 footnotes—and a work, I might add, that made no bones about its debt to McTaggart, whose book Goodwin dutifully credited and footnoted any number of times and with whom she had settled the inadequate sourcing dispute many years ago. To add insult to injury, the Crimson staff lectured Goodwin that “she has a long road ahead of her before she restores her credibility as an historian or journalist” and helpfully advised that her “first step should be resigning from the University?...
...safe. One would not, for instance, want to debate U.S. foreign policy with a convicted terrorist. Putting a domestic terrorist on the dais with an advocate for women’s reproductive rights, however far “left” he or she may be, is both an insult and a threat to those who have dedicated their lives to ensuring that the constitutionally protected right to abortion is available to American women...
...notion of home has been challenged by his vocation as an artist and truth-seeker. For much of the 90s, Rushdie was refused entrance into his native India; the country banned his novel The Satanic Verses in 1988, followed by Sri Lanka and Pakistan, for its alleged insult against Muslims. A year later, Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa for Rushdie’s head. And though he was later issued a visa to return to India nearly a decade after his exile, Rushdie had already established a reputation as a national and literary outsider, living in hiding...
...raison d’etre for the educational career of Dunster House tutor Kevin J. Venman ’95. It was therefore a sad statement on his life when he vomited in the front room of the Spee last weekend and was chased down Mt. Auburn Street by insult- and lighter-hurling sophomores...
...dozen workers on the union’s bargaining team who know that their families need more than an extra dollar and change to get by. Most currently earn less than $10 per hour. These wage and benefit proposals degrade the value of janitors’ work and insult their families’ needs. Harvard’s intransigence at the bargaining table is so offensive that Edgar Barrios, a Guatemalan immigrant worker at the Business School who is on Local 254’s negotiating team told us, “The management team has no ethics. If they...