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...speech yesterday, veteran Harvard Law School professor Alan M. Dershowitz said that his longtime rival, retired MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, was “a Holocaust denier, a denier of history, a denier of reality and the truth...
With over 200 people filling the Emerson Hall lecture hall before him, a debate-mongering Harvard Law School (HLS) professor set to speak after him, and members of a pro-Israel student group leafletting his event outside, the renowned MIT linguist and noted anti-Zionist Noam Chomsky delivered a remarkably soft 45-minute chronology of Israeli-Palestinian history yesterday. Chomsky walked audience members through a careful timeline of Israeli actions against the Palestinians, issuing academic criticisms of the United States and various scholars for their attitudes on the subject. About half of the event’s attendees had filtered...
...truth is so alien to the distinguished MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, said Harvard law professor Alan M. Dershowitz, that Chomsky just might be a resident of his own planet—“Planet Chomsky.” Dershowitz railed against Chomsky’s claims about the Nakba—the Arabic word for what some believe was the forced Palestinian exodus from Israel in 1948 and 1949—in an hour-long discussion last night that was sponsored by Harvard Students for Israel (HSI). Though Dershowitz and Chomsky—who had spoken at an event...
...acting as an advisor to the federal government on issues involving science and technology. Election to the NAS is typically regarded as one of the highest honors that can be awarded to a scientist. Lisa Randall ’83: A Physics professor who held professorships at Princeton and MIT before joining the Harvard Faculty in 2001, Randall is an expert in elementary particles, cosmology, and string theory. Theda R. Skocpol: Skocpol, a professor of government and sociology, served as the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 2005 to 2007. Eric Jacobsen: Chemistry professor Jacobsen joined...
...Prefrosh weekend is an annual favorite of Bennett C. Braddock III ’08, but he was largely unable to take part in this year’s festivities. Braddock was featured at the inaugural ROFLCon, a convention about online pop culture held at MIT, where he sat on a panel alongside such luminaries as “Star Wars Kid” and the “Chocolate Rain?...