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...team, lol. Reppin ‘11.” 11. FM: That’s a little presumptuous. Let’s get to know each other a little better first. How did you like University President Drew G. Faust’s speech? 2011: “That’s what liquor’s for!” 12. FM: Harsh. 2011: “I’d take an orange to the face for Michael Buble.” 13. FM: Don’t try to change the subject. Do you support...
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...
...people have decided," Papandreou said in a concession speech six hours after initial polls predicted his defeat. "PASOK waged a strong fight but it didn't manage to win." Minutes later, a beaming Karamanlis, 51 and of noted political pedigree, arrived at the central election headquarters, claiming a victory he described as "a strong mandate for a new and more dynamic beginning," setting off a storm of celebrations that eclipsed weeks of grief - and anger - that swelled from a deadly spate of forest fires that killed 65 people and left much of the country ravaged...
...such tough talk point to Iraq as evidence that diplomatic swagger can lead policy astray. "We mustn't send the wrong signs to the Bush Administration; it doesn't need us to be encouraged towards war," sarcastically warned former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, whose impassioned anti-invasion speech at the United Nations in February 2003 gave wings to his political career before Sarkozy's ascent stymied it. "There are rules on how to use force," concurred Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which leads negotiations with Tehran. "I would hope that everybody would have gotten...