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...some reason, the first Blu-ray discs I tried in the player were spat out as unreadable. I tossed in a regular DVD, and it played just fine. Only after a day or so did the player inexplicably begin to recognize Blu-ray media. After its change of heart, I had no trouble with any discs, even ones it had previously rejected. Samsung assures me this problem can be solved with a firmware upgrade, administered via disc. The company also stated that its review samples were not from the same production run as the ones now in retail...
...patriotic and directing the Kennedy School to give its next public service award to a military official. Such a demand smacks of McCarthyism and threatens the indispensable principle of scholarship: that evidence, logic, and self-scrutiny must prevail over any test of group loyalty.Better publicized was Summers’ spat with world-renowned African-American philosopher Cornel R. West ’74, who, as a University Professor, occupied the most selective rank of tenured professorship. Summers, according to West, instructed West to change his writings, discontinue his support of certain political candidates, and make regular compliance reports to Summers...
...shouting at the thugs and trying to extract the woman. "Shame on you!" they yelled in a furious chorus of English and Arabic. "Are you animals?" The men backed off grudgingly, and the shaken reporter was ushered back to the relative security of the sidewalk."Cowards," spat Abdul Aziz as he walked away...
...research. Yet simultaneously they advocate social policies, such as this draconian immigration bill, that are antithetical to the beliefs of many Christians. In fact, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Protestant-led Sojourners Magazine have both called upon their followers to oppose the bill. And this spat over immigration is occuring less than three months after Congressional Republicans ignored the pleas of 150 religious leaders who staged a nonviolent protest against a budget bill that proposed cutting $40 billion from education, health care, and child support for low-income families while giving tax cuts to the rich.For...
...responded that it is commonplace for organizations to hold closed events, and that “instead of trying to silence speech” the protesters should use other means “to persuade students of the strength of their ideas.”The protest and ensuing spat began last Wednesday when Federalist Society officers sent an e-mail to members announcing that the previously-public talk with Bybee had been cancelled “due to a scheduling conflict.” The Society had actually moved the event to a location that it disclosed only...