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...When William J. Santoro was turned away from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) hearing at Harvard Law School on Monday, he was surprised to learn that a number of seats in the room had been filled by people paid by the Comcast Corporation...
...outraged,” said Santoro, the building services manager for William James Hall. “I have been waiting for them to come to Boston, and here they were in my own backyard, and I couldn?...
Harvard Psychology Professor Steven Pinker, Columbia Professor of Buddhism Robert A.F. Thurman ’62, and Harvard Professor of Literature William Mills Todd III spoke in front of a packed Tsai auditorium audience of undergraduates and members of the Cambridge community about views of guilt in their respective disciplines...
...William F. Buckley, the majestic patriarch of modern American conservatism, died yesterday at the genteel old age of 82. He was one of the last truly charismatic public intellectuals—and in this sense his passing should be lamented by anyone nostalgic for those days when ideas and the “life-of-the-mind” still mattered. Buckley was certainly an artifact of this dwindling era: He famously lost his temper on national television and blustered, in his droll blue-blood Connecticut brogue, “Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi...
...winner chosen by a blue-ribbon commission of all-purpose elders. The Danforth-Mitchell commission, perhaps, or O'Connor-Albright. But it has never worked that way, which is why Lincoln's statue occupies a marble temple on the Mall in Washington, while his far more experienced rival William Seward has a little seat on a pedestal in New York City. "Experience never exists in isolation; it is always a factor that coexists with temperament, training, background, spiritual outlook and a host of other factors," says presidential historian Richard Norton Smith. "Character is your magic word, it seems...