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...accustomed to criticism. “I have so many scars I look like Jesus in the Mel Gibson film,” he said. While Harvard is not home to any of Horowitz’s 101 “most dangerous,” Cambridge is. MIT linguist Noam Chomsky made the list.The profiles are a varied lot, but most of the professors work in either the humanities or social sciences. Columbia University, Horowitz’s alma mater, was the home of the single greatest share of “most dangerous” professors?...
...existing database has already enjoyed considerable popularity. The database’s most popular clip last week was footage of a debate between MIT linguist Noam Chomsky and Harvard’s Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, who verbally sparred at a Nov. 29 event entitled “Israel & Palestine After Disengagement: Where Do We Go From Here?” The clip was viewed 379 times...
...Athina was just 3 years old. So her decision to take on the foundation surprised some observers. Athina has already shown signs of her mother's chutzpah and a willingness to go her own way. She dropped out of high school at 17, but became a talented horsewoman and linguist. She renounced the Onassis name at the urging of her father, Thierry Roussel, at the age of 13, telling judges that she felt "great aversion" to all things Greek, but she later shook off Roussel's influence. A French playboy who married and then divorced Christina, Roussel used to manage...
...Arabic linguist onhis second tour in Iraq, Zachary Scott-Singley, 24, understood the fighting part. It's the setting-up-the-democracy part he doesn't get. "I do feel like we were lied to about our reasons for being here," he writes in his meditative, almost daily blog about life in Saddam's hometown, posting pictures of what he sees on his base: a headless palm tree that had been hit by a mortar, for example, or a gold carp caught in the Tigris. "Here," he writes, "they teach you to trust no one because anyone might...
...President. We have too many old folks sending young folks to war. Stanley A. Green Stockton, California, U.S. Everybody's Encyclopedia Your story on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia [July 18] was encouraging to those of us working on the project of an international encyclopedia. As a longtime linguist who speaks 27 languages and is an enthusiast of multicultural relations among peoples all over the world, I have been supporting a project of the democratization of human knowledge via the Internet since its inception. I am a regular contributor to the Wikipedia, with articles on several subjects. Time's story proved...