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Scrapbook But Is It Good for Harvard (cont.) Last month political scientists John J. Mearsheimer (University of Chicago) and Stephen M. Walt (Harvard) made public an 82-page "working paper" on...
...Especially since it's so much more fun simply to point out how craptacu-lar their reasoning is...
...Start with Harvard's own Office of Federal Relations, conveniently described on its own website...
...The university is applying political pressure to preserve its established hold on the laboratory...
...fans will be sure to give him a rough time...
...Foreign Policy," which purported to describe how a "core" group of "American Jews" are infiltrating "the corridors of power" and "manipulating the media" in order to distort U.S...
...Other commentators," Kramer goes on, "have pointed to the absurdity of this statement, since every conceivable special interest has a lobby in Washington, and they can't all be working against the national interest...
...For example, the Chicago Tribune reported in January that the University of Chicago has hired the Federalist Group, a Washington lobbying firm, to help it win what is supposed to be a merit-based competition to manage the Argonne National Laboratory...
...But it's not just Harvard...
...Another reader, "Jerry W.," offered a useful tip to NBC: Try going to the Texas Motor Speedway...
...To the credit of NASCAR fans, I never did see someone do so much as a double take at their presence...
...Isn't it standard practice, they write, for "The Lobby" to "squelch debate about Israel" by "suggesting that critics are anti-Semites...
...foreign policy in favor of "racist" and "brutal" Israel...
...A Salute to McHugh On looking through The Mind Has Mountains: Reflections on Society and Psychiatry, the new collection of essays by Paul McHugh, we're more convinced than ever of the importance of the author's contribution—not just to his own, sometimes troubled medical discipline, but also to the wider intellectual struggles and policy choices to which it relates...
...But our favorite piece of advice came from "Chris S.": "My wife and I attended last weekend's NASCAR race in Martinsville, and had a wonderful time...
...Rios, who still retains his duties as an English-as-a-second-language teacher, was copying and distributing a flier that read: 'We gots 2 stay together and protest against the new law that wants 2 be passed against all immigrants...
...No point in feeding these gentlemen's paranoia...
...The Texas track is much larger, with grandstand seating for over 140,000 and sufficient room in the infield for, by the track's estimate, 53,000 more people...
...What say you, Professor Mearsheimer...
...As we learned last week from Michelle Malkin's blog, NBC sent an undercover camera crew to NASCAR's April 2 DIRECTV 500 at the Martinsville Speedway in southern Virginia...
...But because Israel is a strategic and moral liability, it takes relentless political pressure to keep U.S...
...But if NBC wants to guarantee they get a negative reaction to their 'plant,' all they need to do is put him in a Jeff Gordon T-shirt...
...Indeed, you can be absolutely sure no professor will make that assertion about one of the most powerful lobbies in Washington: the higher education lobby...
...The infiltrators' coreligionists are thus given "a free hand" to "persecute" Palestinians—even as "the United States does most of the fighting, dying, rebuilding, and paying...
...Read this book for sane—make that "wise"—clinically informed discussions of depression, Terri Schiavo, the "recovered memory" wars, treating minds as well as brains, the Hippocratic Oath, Shakespeare, and more...
...One of the nuttiest passages in 'The Israel Lobby,'" writes Kramer, "occurs in the very first footnote": The mere existence of the [pro-Israel] Lobby suggests that unconditional support for Israel is not in the American national interest...
...There you have it, Professor Walt...
...that they aint [expletive] without us.'" On the evidence, shouldn't they have instead retained him as a junior varsity baseball coach and stripped him of his duties as an English teacher...
...We gots 2 show the U.S...
...For 26 years head of the department of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, McHugh has labored to develop a science-based psychiatry that approaches mental illness from a stance he calls "constructive realism"—one that spurns Freudian mystification and presumption, yet confidently asserts that truth can be known...
...There we learn the following: "Harvard's federal relations teams in Cambridge and Washington, D.C., work to maintain a positive and ongoing relationship between Harvard and the Congressional and Executive branches of government...
...NBC confirmed to an AP reporter that it had sent "Muslim-looking men" to the race "along with a camera crew to film fans' reactions...
...blog-city.com) for his mordant analysis of one particularly fine bit in the Walt/ Mearsheimer fine print...
...If it was, one would not need an organized special interest group to bring it about...
...But Mearsheimer and Walt seem almost to welcome that complaint—as evidence that a grand conspiracy really exists...
...They "walked around and no one bothered them," NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston told the AP...
...More specifically, the class of Americans that enjoys stock car racing...
...Apparently those mouth-breathing NASCAR fans (as Dateline imagines them) didn't take the bait...
...Dateline NBCs Anti-NASCAR Bias Concerned that Americans might be engaged in anti-Muslim stereotyping, Dateline NBC producers had an unusual brainstorm: Let's stereotype Americans...
...Malkin got a few emails from readers who attended the race...
...But because so many Harvard professors are intellectual and moral liabilities, it takes relentless political pressure to keep federal support intact...
...The track promises to be, if not completely sold out by race day, at least extremely close to it...
...Much public reaction to this astonishing document has concerned its authors' apparent . . . um . . . preoccupation with Jewish people...
...support intact...
...Last month political scientists John J. Mearsheimer (University of Chicago) and Stephen M. Walt (Harvard) made public an 82-page "working paper" on "The Israel Lobby and U.S...
...Evidence that federal support for Harvard is not in the American national interest...
...We only regret that we must forgo reviewing the volume, the price we pay for the honor of having originally published several of its finest pieces in our pages...
...A tip of The ScRAPBOOK's cap to Near East expert and blogger Martin Kramer (sandbox...
...His fans are definitely the most vocal of them all...
...Much easier to find someone willing to react 'suitably' for Dateline with that size crowd, plus the added 'bonus' of finding such behavior in the president's home state...
...Every major research university, and lots of lesser ones, have offices of "government relations"—in-house lobbies that often keep branches in Washington...
...The Dale Earnhardt Jr...
...Woody B." wrote that he had noticed the NBC plants: "They never seemed to be going anywhere in particular...
...If it was, Harvard would not need federal relations "teams" operating out of Cambridge and Washington to bring it about...
...English As a Pidgin Language The Houston Chronicle's Jennifer Radliffe reports on a high school teacher whose activism has landed him in hot water with his bosses: "Rudy Rios was stripped of his duties as junior varsity baseball coach at Chavez High School last week after using a district copying machine to make a flier encouraging Latino students to attend a rally protesting restrictions on illegal immigration...
Vol. 11 • April 2006 • No. 29
