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...principle that professors should not be activists, but to lament a situation where an entire department falls into the uniformity of a similar worldview. For then students lose out from not being exposed to a proper diversity of perspectives. Columbia has been nicknamed the “Bir-Zeit on the Hudson,” after the Palestinian educational institution. We are content enough with the “Kremlin on the Charles” nickname of yesteryear to prevent us from desiring a new epithet. Islamic Studies as a field of scholarly inquiry is as virgin...
Josef Joffe is the editor of Die Zeit and a fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution
...Simon Rattle wields his baton more skillfully than his tongue. A recent interview with the long-reigning wunderkind of classical music - a conversation held in English, translated into German and published in Die Zeit, then retranslated back into English by the British press - came off like a tirade against Brit Art stars Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin. ("Much of this English, very biographically-oriented art is bull___.") "I opened the papers and thought, 'I said what?'" he recalls. "It's embarrassing, because it's not what I meant and it's certainly not what I think." Let's hope...
Even when he was supporting Middelhoff, Mohn had indicated he would go only so far in transforming the company. In an interview with Die Zeit last year, Mohn was asked why he hadn't taken the company public. "But then I could hardly have established this special enterprise culture," he said. "Corporations, especially the shareholder-value-oriented companies in the U.S., show a different attitude to capitalism." Told he could be one of Europe's richest men through an initial public offering, Mohn replied, "That does not mean anything...
...panel wound down with an exchange about how the events of September 11 have affected their work. Spiegelman said he suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (he lives in downtown Manhattan.) He has been working out his feelings in a series of comix for the German newspaper "Die Zeit." The other panelists felt overwhelmed by the idea of dealing with the disaster. "I'm sure it can be done, but boy, the chances of falling into something that is just going to be smarmy are lethal," said Kim Deitch. "Crying superheroes," Burns derisively suggested, though just such a thing...