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...educational malpractice.” He further argues that the “fraudulent manufacturing of false antihistory” is “the kind of deception for which professors are rightly fired—not because their views are controversial but because they are violating the most basic canons of historical scholarship.” To paraphrase a colleague of Dershowitz, if the glove fits, we cannot acquit...
...devotion to wealth and corporate profits, under the pretense of ideology, is what guides Bush’s economic policy—not actual economics. His disregard for basic economic principles goes beyond his refusal to admit any connection between his revenue-slashing and soaring deficits. He is so stridently and categorically averse to taxing the wealthy that he even opposes taxes which, in themselves, enhance economic incentives and efficiency. He prefers, instead, to shift the tax burden to other, distortionary taxes...
When economists come across a tax that actually improves incentives, however, you can imagine how giddy they get. The most basic economic logic says that the benefits of such taxes are indisputable. But basic economic logic has never been Bush’s strong suit...
...Cheryl Knott is one of the world’s leading field researchers studying orangutans in the wild. She embodies the National Geographic mission —leading a research project that is answering basic questions about wild orangutans while at the same time working to conserve a species that is fighting for survival,” said Barbara Moffet, a National Geographic spokesperson...
...Cheryl Knott is one of the most deeply committed young primatologists that I know, who is equally concerned with their conservation and the most basic aspects of their physiology and biology,” said David Pilbeam, curator of paleoanthropology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology...