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...lynching,” and a “coup d’etat.” In some circles, Summers has been crowned a “martyr,” the victim of rampant “political correctness” among a faculty comprised of left-wing nut-jobs. Those who defend Summers often speak in the language of apocalypse, as if Harvard will not survive without Larry Summers at the helm...
...course, all of this is hogwash. Having attended Harvard as an undergraduate, and having taught here for six years, I can attest that the Faculty is in no way a festering cauldron of left-wing lunatics. Overall, its members are a diverse and impressive group of hard-working scholars, variously committed to teaching and public life, open-minded and broadly tolerant, but generally quite slow to voice their dissent on most matters. In other words, they are politically liberal but temperamentally quite moderate. Much like the undergraduates they teach, they are more interested in professional success than in social justice...
...winning goal came with 11:52 left in the third period after Ryan Maki, skating down the middle of the ice, drew the Saints (18-13-2, 12-8-1 ECAC) defenders off of the blue line and slid a pass to Murphy, who was skating down the left wing. Murphy’s shot flew into the top right corner of the net for his 13th goal of the season. Although St. Lawrence staged several furious comeback attempts, it failed to score the tying goal. After the Saints pulled their goalie with only a few minutes left...
JAILED. DAVID IRVING, 67, right-wing British historian; after pleading guilty to denying the Holocaust; by a judge in Vienna. Irving, who was sentenced to three years in prison, was arrested in November on charges relating to speeches he gave in 1989 in which he contended, among other things, that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. Convicted under an Austrian law that makes it a crime to deny or "grossly play down" the Nazi genocide, Irving said he had become a "victim of political theater...
Political tensions between Venezuela and the U.S. have been running high for years but now they?ve gone sky-high. Late Thursday, the government of left-wing President Hugo Chavez announced it would slash the number of flights to and from Venezuela offered by U.S. airlines-significantly trimming flights by American Airlines and banning those by Delta and Continental entirely. The policy goes into effect on March 30th...