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That is why it is important to heed the following warning of the historian Peter Novick, who, according to Finkelstein, inspired his scholarship: “No facts alleged by Finkelstein should be assumed to be really facts, no quotation in his book should be assumed to be accurate, without taking the time to carefully compare his claims with the sources he cites.” When one checks the sources, more often than not it turns out that Finkelstein just makes it up out of whole cloth...
...rarely missed a day of work. In the summer, Fitzgerald worked as a doorman too, a few blocks south of his father. But from a young age, Fitzgerald was on track to join the crowds of Upper East Siders swishing past him. He attended Regis High School, a scholarship-only Jesuit academy for bright Catholic boys, where he was a star on the debate team. Then he moved to Massachusetts to study math and economics at Amherst, followed by law school at Harvard...
...officially joined the Harvard faculty in 1951 and taught until 1979. Moore published his most influential work, “Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World” in 1966. Moore’s earliest scholarship was in the field of Russian politics and power. It was after publishing his 1950 work, “Soviet Politics: The Dilemma of Power” that Moore joined the Russian Research Center. Even in his earliest days at the Center, Moore was “a kind of synthesizer, a big picture...
...offered a spot on the Australian Olympic team, but chose instead to accept a full scholarship to attend Harvard. The scene in which the young Tony makes that fateful decision on film is fraught with dramatic tension, but the real-life Fingleton only recalls the choice with excitement...
...project, Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library Sidney Verba ’53 wrote in a statement.“We believe that the Google Library Project, which is creating a revolutionary new information-location tool to find materials available in libraries, will greatly benefit scholarship, teaching, and the general public’s access to books and information,” he wrote.Schroeder said that the AAP had been in talks with Google to pursue various means for Google to receive the permission of publishers and authors before copying their work.Among the options proposed...