Word: langs
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...December issue, Science magazine likened Yale Mathematician Serge Lang, a proud and contentious member of the august National Academy of Sciences, to a "sheriff of scholarship, leading a posse of academics on a hunt for error." Last week the sheriff rode again. At the NAS annual meeting in its imposing marble headquarters in Washington, the normally stately proceedings were shattered by an acrimonious debate in which Lang led a successful drive to refuse membership to a distinguished Harvard political scientist: Samuel P. Huntington, director of Harvard's Center for International Affairs and president of the American Political Science Association...
...Serge Lang is a professor of mathematics at Yale. commodation with isolated Vietcong Hamlets."Thus in this instance, the State Department sawthrough Huntington's verbiage, and that memorandumgives further evidence that Huntington's politicalopinions have "no basis in fact...
...Lang, who is a visiting professor at Harvard this semester, said yesterday: "I'm happy that the NAS has preserved some standards. The questions I have raised concerning the way some political scientists practice their field have received some legitimacy from today's election...
Huntington, who could not be reached for comment yesterday, has maintianed that Lang and his supporters have taken his use of mathematical symbols to mean more than he intended...
There was "a big, big discussion on largeissues" before members voted to block Huntington'selection, several Academy members said. Thesemembers said the defeat was largely due to a fileof documentation challenging Huntington'sscholarship that Lang has been distributing tomembers for more than a year...