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...freedom at Harvard allows each professor to direct his or her own research. It allows each department to determine the content of its class. And it should allow each professor to determine what material is appropriate for the class's sourcebook. Copyright officer William G. Witt's decision to omit several photos of naked men from a Core sourcebook is a reprehensible violation of this principle...
...Bryson or Winter decided to omit the photos on the grounds of obscenity, they would have been within their rights. But instead they decided that the photos cited in the Mercer article were relevant to their students' education...
...absorption on behalf of the author. We can imagine the writer, typing away at his word processor (another spur to novel-writing these days: anyone with WordPerfect and memories of comic book adventures can churn out a 400-pager in a few days and modem it away) loath to omit any bit of abstruse technological research accrued over many sleepless nights of study. Perhaps the MA's are the breaks he allows himself. Perhaps Death By Fire is another example of how movies have infiltrated the minds of young writers everywhere, such that they cannot imagine planes without...
...treated like the next fellow; he would prefer that we acknowledge his genius, but make no fuss. ("How smart is Michael?" his wife was once asked. "How smart did he tell you he was?" she replied. It's a sly family). A fair world, he would say, would omit his private life from any public discussion...
...N.R.A.'s atrocity stories typically omit details that might muddy its anti-ATF message. High on its list, for example, is the Randy Weaver case. In January 1991, ATF agents arrested Weaver for having sold two sawed-off shotguns to an ATF informant. Weaver was released on his own recognizance. When he failed to appear in court, a fugitive warrant was issued, and the case was passed to the U.S. Marshals Service, which caught up with Weaver in August 1992. A gunfight followed in which a deputy U.S. marshal and Weaver's 14-year-old son were killed...