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...rest of the poor, urban professionals aren't devoted to being poor, but have chosen to pursue jobs in professions that aren't economically valued as Yuppie jobs. Many organizers and other Puppies I know went to Ivy League schools like Harvard. Yale and Princeton, and could be making lost of money in another profession They're certainly not lazy underachieves many are compulsive workaholics. But Puppies don't get paid as much as stock brokers, real estate entrepreneurs, or corporate lawyers even if they work just as hard. It's no coincidence that Newsweek's Year of the Yuppie...
The Supreme Court said in Gertz vs. Robert Welch, Inc. that "there is no such thing as a false idea," meaning that opinion is not punishable; opinions should be countered not by judges and juries but by "the competition of other ideas." But facts can be false and actionable. Evans...
Historians, however, remained polarized over both Abraham's work and the attacks against him. Feldman said, "What Abraham has done disqualifies him as a member of the profession." Other academicians were deeply troubled by the spectacle of powerful, tenured scholars coming down on a young man at the most vulnerable...
For David Abraham, the bottom line is a tarnished reputation and the prospect of being out of work in June, when his appointment at Princeton finally expires. But for the entire profession there seemed to be another bottom line, defined by a senior historian and A.H.A. committee chairman who, after...
Whether it was Ritter's adept questioning, or just a collection of exceedingly articulate athletes most probably a combination of both each chapter seems better than the last. Paul Waner, Rube Marquard, Edd Roush, Goose Goslin and Hank Greenberg have much to tell and tell it well. They talk of...