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Lawrence Lessig, a prominent intellectual property scholar at Stanford Law School, also said that plagiarism and copyright infringement are different concepts...
DIED. Arthur Hertzberg, 84, contrarian Jewish scholar and civil rights activist; near Westwood, N.J. After Israel's 1967 Six-Day War, he caused a stir by calling for a Palestinian state. Yet when the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, a liberal Roman Catholic priest and peace activist, attacked Israel for "domestic repression," Hertzberg rebuked him for "old-fashioned theological anti-Semitism." Determined to entwine Judaism with social causes, he called the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum the "national cathedral of American Jewry's Jewishness" and suggested Jews expand their focus. Instead of offering "platitudes," he said, "a rabbi should be where the real...
...Senate as an “expert witness” on climate science. “And he’s a graduate of this fine institution,” Browner said, to which Professor of Law Jody Freeman, the event’s moderator and an environmental law scholar, interjected, “It’s not our fault!” Browner said that she believes there will be federal action on climate change “certainly in the next three to four years,” but that this will only happen once businesses support...
...blockbuster film “Amadeus,” for which the “Requiem” serves as a musical centerpiece, the unfamiliar stylistic elements in the piece sparked the interest of musicologists. The choir will perform a completed iteration of the work by one such scholar, Harvard’s own Robinson Jr. Professor of Humanities Robert D. Levin ’68. The solos will be sung by soprano Teresa Wakim, mezzo-soprano Krista River, tenor Aaron Sheehan, and baritone Nikolas Sean-Paul Nackley, all professional vocalists of the New England area. The Harvard University Choir...
He’s not the only one to experience Gates’ charm. Gates—who has built the Af-Am Department into a powerhouse over his decade-and-a-half at its helm—says he has sent flowers to every single scholar he has tried to recruit...