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...back are two bumper stickers: one says LBI for Long Beach Island, where his parents have a summer home, and the other is a sticker in the shape of Nantucket Island, where Mankiw and his family vacation in the summer. Once inside his little Bimmer, the first thing the professor does is pull out two CD’s and ask “Vampire Weekend or Jason Mraz?” Even more legendary. We put on “Oxford Comma” and proceed to make the quaint 30 minute drive to the Mankiw abode in suburban...
Cast member Jim True-Frost and his wife Cora True-Frost, a professor at the Law School, used the fourth season of “The Wire” as a jumping-off point to examine wider issues in education and the reality of inner city schools...
...History Professor David Blackbourn, whose office is in CES, said that the loss of the CES faculty assistant has taken a toll...
...Usually when there's a case of fabricating evidence, it's done by the police officers because they're the ones investigating the crime. Like with Mark Furman allegedly planting a bloody glove on O.J. Simpson's property," says Todd Pettys, a law professor at the University of Iowa. Police officers don't have absolute immunity and can be sued when their actions are egregious enough. Framing someone for murder definitely falls into that category. "But if the prosecutors do it," says Pettys, "then what...
...facts on the ground, experts say, do not fully support Beijing's claim. "China is trying to impose this idea of a coherent nation-state," says Gray Tuttle, professor of Tibetan studies at Columbia University in New York. "But it is basing its claim on a premodern cultural world where there was nothing like a modern state." Not only was Chinese control over Tibet thin until the 1950s, but Tibetan rule over Tawang was nominal as well. Beyond the appointment of certain abbots in monasteries and the occasional payment of taxes to Lhasa, the people living there...