Word: libelous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Oliphat suggested the tightening of libel standards as a means of combatting low-quality reporting...
When six tutors returned to Dun- ster in the fall, however, they found a letter,circulated by the Li brothers' lawyer. Itthreatened to file a libel suit if tutors took"any further actions to propagate false andprofessionally damaging information...
Further vengeful hints have come from MacKinnon's companion Jeffrey Masson, the critic of Freudian orthodoxy whose libel suit last year against New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm hinged in its own way on the importance of maintaining distinctions between what actually happens and what is merely imagined. (He charged that in her profile of him, Malcolm had invented scenes and quotes.) Masson assured Romano in a letter that "I am not threatening you." That was just before he added, "I want you to know, if there is ever anything I can do to hurt your career, I will...
...People always want to bring civil suits, and Idon't want to discourage George Perry," Homanssaid. "My experience is that it's like libel andslander suits--you lose as much as you gain...
...forbidding money raising by the Museum is meant to be placed in parallel with the alleged behavior of Lawrence Stager in forbidding Carney Gavin from raising money for the Museum. This parallelism suggests to an literate reader that Stager, like Lowell was moved by anti-Semitic impulses. This is libel. I am told that Peretz has denied that he meant to brand Stager an anti-Semite--a charge which if believed could end Stager's career as archaeologist in Israel. I must confess that I regard his demurral, if correctly reported to me, as disingenuous...