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...trickled south and the race for polar resources has officially started, the international community is paying more attention to its largest island. By the end of this summer, some 3,400 scientists from 60 countries were working on the landmass. Both German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had dropped by to see the melting glaciers for themselves. And singer Björk dedicated a song to Greenland (and the Faroe Islands) - "Declare Independence" - on her latest album...
...We’re doomed,” Republicans are thinking to themselves as 2008 approaches. A recent poll shows the Democratic presidential candidate beating her Republican opponent by 16 points. Even former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich says our chances of losing the presidency...
...foundation also announced that Glimp Professor of Economics Edward L. Glaeser will serve on the advisory panel to the foundation’s U.S. Program. Gates, who dropped out of the College in 1975, was last year’s Commencement speaker. He and Summers sat next to each other on the steps of Memorial Church during the ceremony as they waited to receive honorary degrees from the University...
Over 150 professors in the UC system, led by Maureen Stanton, a professor in the Department of Evolution and Ecology at UC-Davis, started an online petition drive to put the kibosh on Summers’ impending speech. Their preposterous claim was that “inviting a keynote speaker who has come to symbolize gender and racial prejudice in academia conveys the wrong message to the university community and to the people of California...
More generally, the quashing of Summers’ speech points to a troubling trend in academia. Increasingly, the unrestricted marketplace of ideas that must form the heart of any university worth the name is being poisoned by a perverse pressure to conform truth to political agenda and stifle any speaker who espouses uncomfortable or invonveneint opinions. In the present case, the culprits are academics who fashion themselves as progressives eager for social justice and tolerance, but the other side of the political spectrum is no less guilty in others. This situation is alarming and dangerous. If academic freedom cannot exist...