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...when the "C-list" works are on display, don't fret. The collection is so vast and consistently excellent that almost every piece would be on permanent show just about anywhere else. When asked if there are some "Mona Lisa-level" pieces that are so famous or significant they warrant being on display all the time, Dainobu sniffs that the museum doesn't feel the need to promote an arbitrary handful of pieces at the expense of others. Besides, he adds, with not a little pique, "There are many, many works in the collection that are 'Mona Lisa-level.'" True...
...patience for undergraduates caught plagiarizing—inadvertently or otherwise. And it is in terms of discipline that Harvard’s most obvious double standard applies. Whereas the expository writing handbook “Writing with Sources” advises students that most cases of plagiarism ordinarily warrant withdrawal from the College for at least two semesters (with exceptions sometimes granted for “genuine confusion” over citation procedures, though Professor Tribe could hardly make that argument), in comparison, Harvard’s disciplinary policy towards its professors is laughable. In Ogletree’s case...
...much the same category as electricity or natural gas bills. The upshot of this is that each of these, in the eyes of the law, can be easily obtained through a subpoena process, circumventing altogether the sticky rules that have developed around the acquisition of a fourth-amendment search warrant or a wiretap. The specific procedural guidelines for acquiring a subpoena are quite complicated, and can be laid out in each instance by legislation, but in practice the rule tends to be “ask, and ye shall receive:” most requests for subpoenas, particularly those issued...
...routine, ripping at Jackson’s jacket—and revealing the singer’s right breast. (Timberlake deemed the mistake a “wardrobe malfunction,” but while Dartboard agrees that Timberlake is a complete dolt, his incoherence doesn’t warrant such a fine.) Despite an inopportune camera distance that allowed for little to see, conservative critics and thousands of distressed denizens cried foul, provoking the FCC to take these recent measures. You’d have thought they were blinded...
...story. What are important are the lessons that the Byzantine Empire’s decline and collapse can teach us. While the current situation we face today is by no means identical to that which faced Europe over five hundred years ago, there are enough similarities to warrant comparison...