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...years later, the threat of a six-figure fine has no radio station willing to bet on the poem’s social importance. While it seems unbelievable, the threat of large fines is enough to give any radio programmer, including the more adventurous college DJ, pause.FERLINGHETTI SCAREI should note here that my co-writer, Evan L. Hanlon, is off this week—these are solely the experiences of me, Kimberly E. Gittleson. Two years ago, I was running out of material to play for my Jazz and Poetry Orgy on WHRB. Orgies are six-plus hour blocks...
...speeches and open letters she has delivered since she was named Harvard’s 28th president are any guide, Faust will probably appeal to the University’s 371-year history when she takes the stage for her installation today. She will probably note Harvard’s responsibility as a leader in higher education. And she will probably restate her commitment to breaking down barriers across the University...
...think more than some I tried to situate my speech in its moment,” Summers said. “I was trying to strike a rather firm, young note...
...difficult to talk about the [Israel] lobby’s influence on American foreign policy,” note the authors of “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” “without being accused of anti-Semitism or labeled a self-hating Jew.” For the two authors—University of Chicago political science professor John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, former academic dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government—whose new book discusses that lobby, this statement clearly reflects personal experience.When the pair...
...refreshing look at that weighty, well-worn subject. Was the catastrophe just one incident, or two? How does one explicate the event? And perhaps more importantly, should the leaseholder of the Twin Towers get reimbursed $3.5 billion for one destructive event, or $7 billion for two? On this note, Pinker reminds us, “There is nothing ‘mere’ about semantics!”Pinker’s goals for the book are lofty. “We will consider whether the signs of intelligent design in the English language imply a corresponding intelligence...