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...piss off the religiously and socially conservative Saudis. Along with the black guy, there's the older man (Chris Cooper) who swears a lot; the woman doctor (Jennifer Garner) who insists on wearing tight T shirts; oh, and the Jew (Jason Bateman). Too bad there's no cross-dressing speaker of Arabic. This film doesn't need Jamie Foxx; it needs Jamie Farr...
...Harvard, which last year attracted similar ire, albeit on a smaller scale, for hosting Ahmadinejad’s predecessor Mohammad Khatami. We said then—and we say now—that such invitations are not only appropriate but laudable.The worthiness of an invitation to a guest speaker should be determined by his or her ability to add to the intellectual climate at a university, something any world leader most certainly does. Political considerations should play absolutely no role in extending an invitation.Columbia’s invitation to Ahmadinejad and Harvard’s invitation to Khatami were...
...celebrate. “Academic freedom” may claim agnosticism as to the value of differing opinions, insisting only that each should be heard and considered. Academic freedom, however, itself implies a value: that inquiry should be free and opposing views respected. What a farce to invite a speaker, under the auspices of “academic freedom,” who not only opposes that premise, but has dedicated his public career to undermining...
Grimsson is the first speaker in the third annual Future of Energy seminar series, organized by the Harvard University Center for the Environment to bring attention to energy research at Harvard...
...When it comes time for him to address the comments, he does so by citing each speaker by name - 23 in all, he notes. In contrast with what he calls the lack of respect and dignity accorded to him at Columbia - where, he says, he found it odd that an academic institution which prizes tolerance would treat him without any - he addresses each person carefully and patiently. Some highlights...