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...interesting innovation First Monday offers is the use of real political figures, like the Rev. Jerry Falwell, arguing about court topics on Curveball, the takeoff of Chris Matthews' Hardball that the Justices sometimes catch on TV. There are also occasional moments of accidental hilarity; in the first episode Durning, talking to Garner about the Ruth Bader Ginsburg doppelganger Justice Esther Weisenberg, says, "Esther's giving that new boy her wet-panties pep talk." You can't come up with comedy like that on purpose...
...months into the job, HARVARD president Lawrence Summers is finding he still has much to learn. He offended black professor CORNEL WEST during an October meeting by criticizing West's nonacademic activities--reportedly including his support of the Rev. AL SHARPTON--and drew fire from the Rev. Jesse Jackson and others who questioned Summers' commitment to affirmative action. West and two colleagues in Harvard's renowned AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES department threatened a move to Princeton. But Summers made peace with West last week and reaffirmed Harvard's commitment to diversity. End of lesson...
...primary only thanks to the machinations of America’s misogynist, homophobic, racist power elite? And who but Cornel West, having tasted the bitter cup of failure, would return to the political arena so quickly, laboring in the vineyards for the as-yet-unannounced presidential campaign of the Rev. Al Sharpton? In fact, who but Professor West would see that Al Sharpton—regarded by many lesser minds as an anti-Semitic and unrepentantly dishonest demagogue—might “fuse the best of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.,” and thus...
...spokesperson for Cornel R. West ’74 defended the Fletcher University professor’s involvement in the Rev. Al Sharpton’s presidential exploratory committee this week, following the recent conflict between University President Lawrence H. Summers and West that was reportedly sparked in part by Summers’ criticism of West’s role in the campaign...
...play makes Jack a dull boy,” and West is far from a dull man, it would make sense that not all his ventures, such as the infamous CD, are going to be of a no-nonsense nature. Though West’s support of the Rev. Al Sharpton’s presidential campaign may understandably face debate or criticism, as citizens of a democratic nation, we ought not tolerate a rebuke of his political stance. Finally, to be angry over a professor publishing a work which, the Boston Globe paraphrased Summers as saying...