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...like President Ahmadinejad at Columbia, Mohammed Khatami at Harvard, and the plagiarizing former professor Ward Churchill at Hamilton College, although the last was ultimately cancelled—contribute nothing but the universities’ effective condemnation of American foreign policy. Universities demand and expect academic freedom, by which they mean freedom to make unrelated and extremist political statements...
...discussion about the book is more about me, not about the book. I think people are responding to who wrote the book. That is not how you read a book. You read a book by looking at the words on the page, how they fit together, and what they mean,” she says. “It is shocking to me that it is controversial. My intention was to write about my own experience, that being both comical and sad.” Particularly sad—and particularly difficult for Pollitt to write?...
...stupid, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t something sick about a man who repeatedly calls young girls at hours when he thinks they will be disoriented, pretends to be someone they know, and then asks intimate, invasive questions (“What are you wearing? Where are you? Where is your hand?”). At the least, it’s a cry for help; it’s also deceit, an invasion of privacy, and some form of sexual harassment. It’s for these reasons that in some states, including...
...book, the titular one-liner-cum-maxim serves as a focal point for what Ulrich describes as the “renaissance in historical scholarship that began with the women’s movement in the 1960s and 1970s” and changing definitions of what it means for a woman to “make history.” FROM JOURNALS TO T-SHIRTSUlrich, whose book “A Midwife’s Tale” was awarded the 1991 Pulitzer Prize in History, said that for a long time she had forgotten the offhand remark about...
...Lack of confidence may also mean lack of patience with new policies Sarkozy is preparing - starting with his plans to align so-called "special regimes" requiring civil servants to work fewer years to qualify for pensions closer to longer private sector schemes. To do so, Sarkozy has begun consultations with unions and their state-owned employers, and pledged to adapt the reform to the specifics of certain jobs, companies, and sectors before passing it into law and applying it - probably next year. But as they did with the month-long strikes that crippled the nation in 1995 (and eventually...