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...woeful double standard is at work here, as evidenced by the recent events surrounding the plagiarism committed by Carl M. Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62. Tribe’s 1985 book, “God Save This Honorable Court,” fails to credit text lifted verbatim from Henry J. Abraham’s book “Justices and Presidents.” In a joint statement issued Thursday by President Summers and Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan, the University declined to formally punish Tribe in any substantial way. While Tribe...
Virtually every day, Soviet newspapers fulminate about rampant U.S. censorship, persecution of dissidents, forced labor, religious discrimination and telephone tapping. Film of homeless Americans sleeping on subway grates and bag ladies foraging through trash cans has become so standard on Soviet TV that at least a few viewers must be convinced that all of New York City consists of such unfortunates. Recalling the concentration camps of the Nazi era, a professor serving as a commentator for one show tells his audience, "The U.S. is going through a prison boom; camps for dissidents are hastily being built there...
...printing of 25,000 copies of the $15.95 book was sold out in a day, and another 25,000 have been ordered, although A Time for Peace is not likely to displace Elvis and Me from the top of the U.S. best-seller lists. Gorbachev, who will receive the standard 15% royalty fee, is giving his income from the book to Soviet Life, an English-language magazine that Moscow publishes...
...difficult for me now," says Liao, who hopes to settle in Australia, where she has developed a sense of independence. "In Australia the work is less stressful, there is a well maintained social-welfare system and a much stronger economy. For me, all of that makes for a better standard of living compared to China...
...representatives were not there to offer “opinions” or “ideas,” but rather to lure talented Harvard students into exciting careers with agencies for which torture, mass deportations, assassinations, and other violations of human rights are standard practices. I was there to inform others of these practices (with a fact sheet we handed to everyone in attendance), express my disgust for these practices, and interfere with the recruitment process that makes them possible...