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...against “pervasively sectarian” (in the language of at least a few Blaine amendments) institutions. Although the Supreme Court, in a 2000 ruling (Mitchell v. Helms), has found that the term has “a shameful pedigree” within American history, the Blaine language??s usage today—to block judicially and on a state level a multitude of programs made to benefit the urban poor—has disturbing parallels with America’s nativist past...
Pinker said his work will be only tangentially related to the initiative, as he primarily focuses on the study of human language??a subject he said is not usually included in systems neuroscience. But he maintained that Harvard’s expansion in the field is exciting and hopes to benefit from its success...
Gomes said at the service that Epps was completely calm—if somewhat profane in his language??when he was carried out of University Hall “as if in a sedan chair...
...Allen entered Columbia’s Ph.D. program to study a slew of fields—from ethics to the philosophy of language??and found himself teaching again. This time he became a preceptor for Columbia’s famous “Great Books” course, where he taught eager undergraduates about philosophers like Aristotle, Locke and Hegel...
...than 25 percent.” Jasanoff denies giving a specific directive but admits that the 25 percent target “corresponds approximately to my philosophy.” Regardless, enrollment numbers in Vaux’s two big courses, Social Analysis 34: “Knowledge of Language?? and Linguistics 80: “Dialects of English,” dropped dramatically. Vaux believes—quite rightly—that students avoided a class that was “graded much harder than any other class in my department or any other class...