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...afraid of controversy in a way that most of his colleagues understood and usually appreciated,” said Berkeley law school professor Richard M. Buxbaum, who had known Barnett for 40 years...

Author: By Xi Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Law Professor, Alum Dead at 73 | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

Since he joined the law school faculty in 1967, Barnett was known to champion the freedom of the press and to levy harsh criticisms against the California Supreme Court’s decision making process...

Author: By Xi Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Law Professor, Alum Dead at 73 | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

...details of Barnett’s professional pursuits often escaped Karine, his wife of eight years, who said she had not known about the bulk of his accomplishments until she read his obituaries. Karine recalled a different Steve—a peaceful and quiet presence in the home...

Author: By Xi Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Law Professor, Alum Dead at 73 | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

Richard is perhaps best known for his work on the semantical analysis of propositional-attitude ascriptions—phrases such as “hope that” and “believe that”—and their connection to theories of direct reference, which posit that the meaning of a noun or noun phrase is that which it picks out in the world...

Author: By Manning Ding, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tufts Prof. To Join Philosophy Department | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

...patch of garden in troubled Yala is the brainchild of the Fourth Army Region Commander Lieut. General Pichet Wisaijorn, who is the military officer in charge of Thailand's far south. The area was once a Malay Muslim sultanate, but Thailand, then known as Siam, annexed the region in the early 20th century. Since then some Muslim residents, who make up roughly 80% of the local population, have complained of feeling like second-class citizens in what elsewhere is a predominantly Buddhist land. Sporadic violence in the deep south bloomed into a full-scale insurgency in 2004. Overtly Buddhist targets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Promoting Peace Through Organic Farming in Thailand | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

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