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Ferguson, a 40-year-old Scotland native has written six books since 1998—starting with his highly regarded The Pity of War and two volumes about the Rothschild banking dynasty. His hiring fits in with University President Lawrence H. Summers’s oft-stated goal of attracting young professors who will be able to spend most of their academic careers at Harvard. Summers himself played a key part in luring Ferguson from NYU with what Ferguson deemed “a very long and very important conversation...
...contrarian, which singled him out for persecution at the hands of one or another strongman’s private militia. This oppression of Dominique, his followers and poor Haitians in general is ultimately the theme that ties the film’s large historical bookends. Demme dredges up some oft-unseen footage of Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier’s reign, which was marked by bizarre voodoo rituals at the presidential palace and the terror of the ubiquitous Tons Tons Macoutes, a troupe of Boy Scouts-gone-wrong, who bore automatic weapons in support...
Harvard students present and future should not expect many significant improvements in the quality of undergraduate education here. The oft-trumpeted curricular review, which releases its report today, essentially shelved many undergraduate concerns such as the presently abysmal quality of advising and teaching...
...mine's a small, oft-told tale of inside baseball, office politics, double standards. . . but you know what?? My case also represents a troubling template for the future.?We know about Howard Stern, Bubba the Love Sponge and a Chicago DJ named "Mancow," raunch-shockmeisters all, awaiting FCC rulings. More insidious is a climate of fear so pervasive even public radio knitters are being axed.? While I won?t be sending KCRW any love letters soon, I understand their worries.? Now that the FCC has raised the fine per incident from $27,000 to $500,000, it?s one slip...
Moore, emphasizing the positive effects of the oft-ridiculed Bush tax cuts, called them “the single best pro-growth tax cut since Reagan...