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...heat of a very confusing situation somebody made a mistake and then very quickly retracted that statement,” said Law School Professor and co-founder of StopBadware John G. Palfrey ’94. “It’s the completely wrong reading that Google was looking for a scapegoat...
...while listing grievances with coal as an energy source. As two of the activists held the banner, another questioned the speaker, CEO of Arch Coal Steven F. Leer, on the viability of coal as a solution to climate change. When moderator Daniel P. Schrag, an earth and planetary sciences professor and director of Harvard University Center for the Environment, asked the objector his name, the man replied, “coal kills.” Several audience members responded to this statement with applause. The interruption concluded when Schrag asked the Rising Tide representatives to leave the stage. Before...
You’d have to be an undergraduate to believe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is “complicated” and “controversial,” or to think there is right on both sides. So says Professor Duncan Kennedy, who sneers that these are “fairly common, understandable undergraduate attitudes,” before offering “context” (in an op-ed published in The Harvard Crimson on January 30) that aims to make Israel’s overwhelming guilt clear...
...Undergraduates may err, but it takes a tenured professor to distort reality that badly. Kennedy is neither an historian nor an expert on the Middle East. What he is good at is thinking up radical ways to turn the academy upside down. He once suggested that the professors at Harvard Law School should earn the same salaries as the janitors. (After reading his opinions on Israel, you may be inclined to agree...
...You’d think these facts would interest a law professor. But not Kennedy, who prefers a tale of “original sin” in which Israel simply drove Arabs from their homes, took their land, and oppressed whoever was left...