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...sentence from another work and pass it off as my own without citing it or quoting it, that might not be copyright infringement, because I wouldn’t necessarily need permission to use it,” Lawrence Lessig, a prominent intellectual property scholar at Stanford University Law School, told The Crimson last week.Hughes said yesterday that the contract’s cancellation probably does not make Viswanathan more vulnerable to legal action, but it is a decision by a “risk-averse” publisher who no longer wishes to deal with the controversy...
...scholar of European political thought, Harvard turned to Europe for Michael E. Rosen, who will be joining the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as professor of government on July 1. Currently a fellow and tutor in Lincoln College at Oxford University, Rosen’s work bridges continental philosophy and political theory. He is also interested in analytical political theory and the history of political thought—boosting what is presently a small field in the department, according to Government Chair Nancy L. Rosenblum ’69. “We are in need of senior scholars...
...ZARQAWI IS NO RELIGIOUS SCHOLAR. A high school dropout, he memorized the Koran while in prison and acquired his religious ideas from extremist preachers and thinkers in Afghanistan and Jordan. To devout Muslims, emulation of the Prophet is considered desirable, and most believers concentrate on Muhammad's well-documented attributes, like frugality, modesty, charity and respect for elders. But al-Zarqawi, like others who subscribe to extremist schools of Islam, takes emulation literally. Among the examples Bakr cites is al-Zarqawi's tendency, modeled on the Prophet's, to "do everything from right to left: he puts on his right...
...tenure candidate needs to be well-rounded—both a professor and a scholar. “A weakness in either one could disqualify somebody,” says History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74. Though evaluations of scholarship and teaching are central to tenure decisions across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, administrators say the definition of scholarship varies by department. In economics and science, scholars develop their reputations by publishing journal articles, while monographs are more important for historians, according to recently arrived Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Brian W. Casey...
After all, allegations of plagiarism have plagued some of Harvard’s most famous professors in recent years, from Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz to Harvard constitutional scholar Laurence H. Tribe ’62. And of course, there was the recent scandal of economics professor Andrei Shleifer ’82, who was taken to court last year for allegedly attempting to defraud the U.S. government...