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...civil rights violator and racist state. Dershowitz begins each chapter by quoting several sources that have made the relevant accusation, then proceeds to offer facts that demonstrate the contrary. When possible he cites figures who oppose his own views, including well-known critics of Israel like MIT Linguistics Professor Noam Chomsky and Columbia Literature Professor Edward Said...
...Nazis to justify their campaign of mass murder against the disabled and the Jews. Tainted by this association, the idea of innate behavior was in full retreat for most of the middle years of the century. In 1958, however, two men began the counterattack on behalf of nature. Noam Chomsky, in his review of a book by the behaviorist B.F. Skinner, argued that it was impossible to learn human language by trial and error alone; human beings must come already equipped with an innate grammatical skill. Harry Harlow did a simple experiment that showed that a baby monkey prefers...
Since arriving at Harvard, he has worked with students as a teaching fellow in Government 20, “Introduction to Comparative Politics” and other College government courses, receiving the Derek Bok Award for Teaching Excellence. This semester, he is the head TF for Noam Chomsky’s “Politics, Justice, and Social Change,” a course offered jointly between the Kennedy School...
...past eighteen years, Harvard has placed first 14 times, a record unparalleled by any other university, even MIT and Caltech. In the other four years, Harvard consistently placed in the top five. Professor of Mathematics Noam Elkies, instructor for the intense first-year Math 55 and a three-time Putnam Fellow, ascribes this performance to the quality of the math students that matriculate at Harvard, laughing that “the people who can take the most credit for that is the admissions office...
...Sinfonia No. 9 and Britten’s Variations on a theme by Frank Bridge. The players will also be perfoming Bach’s Brandenberg Concerto No. 5, featuring Sonya Chung ’03 and Brian M. Seeve ’03 and Professor of Mathematics Noam D. Elkies. All proceeds from the show will go to the Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment Summer Program. Saturday, April 12 at 8 p.m. Tickets $8 general; $6 for students (two per ID) and senior citizens. Available at the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. Paine Hall...