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...crafted its most refined draft of a self-study report required for the institution’s review for reaccreditation in October. The committee involved in the revising process currently has a “reasonably-completed draft report,” said Computer Science Professor Margo I. Seltzer, who presented the most recent version yesterday to the Faculty Council—the 18-member governing body of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—in order to incorporate the professors’ feedback. Seltzer said the committee will present a refined draft to the Harvard community in about...
These commentators are so effective (and more popular, among some audiences, than the straight media they've supplanted) precisely because they spray seltzer in the face of the official, inoffensive, phony public discourse. Unlike many politicians, they say what they think; unlike much of the media, they trust their audience's intelligence. That we should rely so heavily on them to do so is the biggest joke in American public life. I wish I could laugh...
...specialties is that we can handle large amounts of content.” But some academics still question CrossCheck’s accuracy. “I don’t know of any infallible software,” said Berkman Center fellow Wendy M. Seltzer ’96. Shieber also said that the software’s initial effects on the academic publishing world may be deceiving. “You have to be careful about determining what is plagiarism and what isn’t.” Shieber said. “Judgment is necessary...
...have been exposed as fakes. The New York Times reported that Love and Consequences, a book about growing up half--Native American in the gangland of South Central Los Angeles, was actually written by a white woman who grew up in the suburban San Fernando Valley. The author, Margaret Seltzer, was ratted out by her sister, who had seen her picture and story featured, with total credulity, in the Times's own House & Home section the previous week...
...what they print. They won't knowingly publish a fraud, but they won't take the first step to expose one. In fact, they don't even seem to turn on their baloney detectors when they sit down to read a manuscript. One phone call could have exposed Seltzer's tale. And as for Defonseca, certainly there are many true stories of surviving the Holocaust that strain credulity. But adopted by wolves? Please...