Word: slipperyness
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At a recent history conference entitled “Empire and Imperial Control in Comparative Historical Perspective,” Niall Ferguson, who will join Harvard’s history department in July, made a number of points. In his keynote address he reiterated his most recent thesis: the United...
A few years ago, in the context of a lengthy and fascinating videotaped deposition, Bill Clinton’s famous remark that a lot “depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is” was a clever response to the...
“There’s a huge public policy reason to not draw that distinction,” she said. “The powers wielded by the Harvard University Police Department are just like those of any other police officers, and to draw that line based on...
Kidd said she was worried about a “slippery slope if we ask something not to be published,” adding that censoring nude photographs in a student publication might not be legal.
BREMER: It's too early to tell. I feel like I'm in a fast-moving car on a slippery mountain road. I don't spend a lot of time looking in the rearview mirror. I'll let the historians worry about that.