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...wasn’t a Crimson reporter there? Your lack of coverage of the Finkelstein lecture is especially disappointing considering a Crimson editorial from two years ago. In “Keeping it Civil” (editorial, Nov. 8, 2005), you supported the invitation of Finkelstein to speak (about Dershowitz??s book) and condemned students who heckled and shouted at the professor throughout his lecture. This was of course not because you supported his views but rather so “that all ideas, however incendiary, can be voiced and judged in a true marketplace of ideas...
...Carter has defended the controversial title of his book, saying in a statement on the Carter Foundation Web site that the “apartheid” refers to conditions in the Palestinian territories and not in Israel. The leader of the Harvard Progressive Jewish Alliance, which generally opposes Dershowitz??s hawkish views on Israel, said in an interview after the event that she was impressed by the law professor’s rhetoric. But she took issue with some of Dershowitz??s arguments. “I felt that he made a lot of generalizations...
...Center. Here, students can take creative writing courses with luminaries of fiction such as Jamaica Kincaid, Steven Pinker, L. Ron Hubbard, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. At this point, we will break for lunch. We usually recommend the best bacon cheeseburger in the square, the “Alan Dershowitz?? at Bartley’s. Before breaking bread, we make sure to lead the group in a good ol’-fashioned Harvard prayer, so we face the B-school and genuflect five times to the gods of mammon and usury...
...popular controversy.In 2003, Dershowitz was accused of inappropriately lifting material from Joan Peters’ 1984 book “From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine” while writing “The Case for Israel.” Especially vocal among Dershowitz??s detractors were his ideological opponents, including Norman G. Finkelstein, a political science professor at DePaul University and a frequent critic of Dershowitz Dershowitz denies any misdeeds, and explained in an e-mail to FM that he was only “finding quotations in secondary sources, checking...
...offering Psychology 1002, “Morality and Taboo.” The course’s professors—a one-two punch of Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker and the Law School’s Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz??will likely draw lots of students with their popularity (not to mention that the popular Positive Psychology, Psychology of Leadership, and Human Sexuality are ALL not offered this spring.) Regardless, the subject matter of Psychology 1002 will hold its own and spur the interest of those interested in debating morality and social...