Deborah Lipstadt’s Blog: A Great Moment in Legal History - article in N.Y. Sun
Array She wants to do a slide show of her photographs, so I need to borrow and learn to work a portable computer projector.Before we left I got a new rear tire for my bicycle, after three flats in three weeks.
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-ne Veteran GOP operative (and founding member of Hypocrites R’ Us, The Republican Superstore) Arthur Finkelstein has launched a web site dedicated to the proposition that Hillary Rodham-Clinton is a liberal menace â and one who can only be stopped by raising 0 million in hard-earned, conservative cash.stophernow.com has some predictably unflattering pictures of Senator Clinton and a plea to right-wing troglodytes everywhere to help them in Rescuing America from the radical ideas of Hillary Clinton.The site also gives the ominous warning that Clinton and her husband are trying to pull the wool over Americas eyes once again.”OK, we already know these guys will always call out the neo-conservative cavalry to stop any Clinton, but what struck me as funniest was how, once again, they reflect on the days when â…Bill Clinton disgraced America and degraded the Presidency.âWhile I know that these people are probably much happier with a president with a double-digit IQ, who has made us arguably the most hated nation on earth, lets take a hard look at the horrors brought upon us by President Bill Clinton: The largest economic expansion in United States history, including an economy that grew for 116 consecutive months, also the most in U.S. history.
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-ne Google CEO Eric Schmidt is giving a talk titled Perspectives on the Information Industry this Thursday (May 26) at University of Washington. Eric responded by praising A9’s effort and saying that Google and Amazon cooperated in many more ways than they compete.In response to my question about personalized search, Eric said that Google definitely intends to show different people different search results using information about their behavior, but also said that it would be optional and respectful of privacy.
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Sun:A Great Moment in Legal HistoryKnickerbockerBY GARY SHAPIROMay 26, 2005Emory University Jewish Studies professor Deborah Lipstadt’s triumph over Holocaust denier David Irving, who sued her and her publisher for libel in London, is one of those great moments in legal history when truth, justice, and freedom of speech are all simultaneously served, writes lawyer Alan Dershowitz in the afterward to Ms. Lipstadt’s new book, My Day in Court With David Irving: History on Trial (Ecco).The book describes the momentous 10-week trial in 2000 under British libel law, which (unlike its American counterpart) places the burden of proof on the defendant. Lipstadt discussed the case, which stemmed from assertions made in her book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (Free Press).The event marked a return to New York for Ms. Lipstadt talked about the book’s themes, including the legal and forensic one: how we managed to fight the battle. Lipstadt spoke about some tactical decisions in the case, such as going beyond the Holocaust to discuss Churchill and Dresden. He said in the book one can learn not only a profile in courage but a message about fighting hatred both smartly and courageously.Deborah was the most reluctant author I ever published, said Adam Bellow, editor at large at Doubleday, who edited Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory when he was editorial director at the Free Press.
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Array She wants to do a slide show of her photographs, so I need to borrow and learn to work a portable computer projector.Before we left I got a new rear tire for my bicycle, after three flats in three weeks.
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-ne Veteran GOP operative (and founding member of Hypocrites R’ Us, The Republican Superstore) Arthur Finkelstein has launched a web site dedicated to the proposition that Hillary Rodham-Clinton is a liberal menace â and one who can only be stopped by raising 0 million in hard-earned, conservative cash.stophernow.com has some predictably unflattering pictures of Senator Clinton and a plea to right-wing troglodytes everywhere to help them in Rescuing America from the radical ideas of Hillary Clinton.The site also gives the ominous warning that Clinton and her husband are trying to pull the wool over Americas eyes once again.”OK, we already know these guys will always call out the neo-conservative cavalry to stop any Clinton, but what struck me as funniest was how, once again, they reflect on the days when â…Bill Clinton disgraced America and degraded the Presidency.âWhile I know that these people are probably much happier with a president with a double-digit IQ, who has made us arguably the most hated nation on earth, lets take a hard look at the horrors brought upon us by President Bill Clinton: The largest economic expansion in United States history, including an economy that grew for 116 consecutive months, also the most in U.S. history.
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-ne Google CEO Eric Schmidt is giving a talk titled Perspectives on the Information Industry this Thursday (May 26) at University of Washington. Eric responded by praising A9’s effort and saying that Google and Amazon cooperated in many more ways than they compete.In response to my question about personalized search, Eric said that Google definitely intends to show different people different search results using information about their behavior, but also said that it would be optional and respectful of privacy.
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Sun:A Great Moment in Legal HistoryKnickerbockerBY GARY SHAPIROMay 26, 2005Emory University Jewish Studies professor Deborah Lipstadt’s triumph over Holocaust denier David Irving, who sued her and her publisher for libel in London, is one of those great moments in legal history when truth, justice, and freedom of speech are all simultaneously served, writes lawyer Alan Dershowitz in the afterward to Ms. Lipstadt’s new book, My Day in Court With David Irving: History on Trial (Ecco).The book describes the momentous 10-week trial in 2000 under British libel law, which (unlike its American counterpart) places the burden of proof on the defendant. Lipstadt discussed the case, which stemmed from assertions made in her book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (Free Press).The event marked a return to New York for Ms. Lipstadt talked about the book’s themes, including the legal and forensic one: how we managed to fight the battle. Lipstadt spoke about some tactical decisions in the case, such as going beyond the Holocaust to discuss Churchill and Dresden. He said in the book one can learn not only a profile in courage but a message about fighting hatred both smartly and courageously.Deborah was the most reluctant author I ever published, said Adam Bellow, editor at large at Doubleday, who edited Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory when he was editorial director at the Free Press.
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