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Therein lies the rub. Larry Sanger, Wikipedia's former editor in chief (and now a lecturer at Ohio State) still loves the site but thinks his fellow professionals have a point. "The wide-open nature of the Internet encourages people to disregard the importance of expertise," he says. Sanger does not let his students use Wikipedia for their papers, partly because he knows they could confirm anything they like by adding it themselves...
...returned to Britain the talk of the town. The studio audience at a bbc current-affairs program greeted him with rapturous applause. On the floor of the House of Commons, M.P.s, who once might have steered clear, pushed close as if hoping a little of Galloway's mojo might rub off on them. The Senate committee's evidence - papers from the Iraqi Oil Ministry that named Galloway as a recipient of Saddam's oil allocations, corroborated by former regime officials now under arrest in Iraq - didn't prove he actually received any oil or money, directly or indirectly. Galloway...
...apparatus was gone thanks to a tear-down crew that didn’t sleep. And yet, in exchange for these efforts, The Crimson responded with an inflammatory front page article focusing exclusively on a minute portion of partygoers who reacted to the foam (“Lather Suds Rub Partiers Wrong Way,” News, Apr. 19), a malicious (albeit facetious) editorial and an unduly harsh April 21 Fifteen Minutes party report card (apparently also meant in jest). These articles make spiteful accusations in the spirit of parody without ever mentioning what they assume the whole campus already...
TIME I think you've probably heard people say, "George doesn't really like directing actors. George doesn't really like being on the set and having the rub and scratch of egos and all that." Is there any truth to that? Is it easier for you to paint them on a computer...
...disparate fields as literary culture and economic history, and areas from Scandinavia to the Balkans. For students, the Center is a vibrant space where with casual ease we can come in contact with faculty members. At events such as the Center’s Friday lunches, undergraduates quite literally rub shoulders with some of the foremost scholars of, among other things, Paris in the 19th century, the history of intermarriage between royal families, or the intellectual dimensions of the Weimar Republic. Even when popular faculty members are on leave, they can often be spotted at the Center. For instance, Tisch...