Posted on 08/15/2006 2:41:50 PM PDT by abb
[begin exerpt] My guess is that you recognized that my "brilliant insights" were pretty much on target or you won't have responded as rapidly and as sarcastically as you did (the misspelling of your precious name is at the _end_ of the article, ain't it now, my loyal reader).
No, you're not a bigot like Tim Tyson or a malicious failed academic like Peter Wood.
But, Chafe, you must know that nobody much likes petty, tenured vigilantes who attack and prejudge their students from the comfort of their cush offices There's a pretty big power differential there, DEAN, in case you didn't notice. It's called being a bully. Without the facts in hand.
I, the real historians and the Duke community have only begun to explore the Duke faculty's deplorable conduct in this case. And that will be a conversation going on all year with your students. And with your colleagues. But not with you or with your fellow Chairs and Deans who have already shown your character by signing that reprehensible letter.
Don't worry, I'll make it fun. I'm good that way. The spelling of your name will be the least of your worries.
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Department of History
Duke University
History seeks to develop insight into a particular period of past human experience, whether revolutions in France, China, or Russia; civil wars in England or the United States; colonial encounters of Africans and Native Americans with Europeans in the Americas; migrations of men and women among continents; or the evolution of social classes in different societies.
The methodological approaches explored in our courses range from traditional avenues of political, economic, military, and intellectual history to the newer fields of labor, social, oral, or comparative history.
http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/history/faculty/specialty.html
What baffles many is why anyone would fork over $160,000 plus,
for degrees in this stuff. Unless of course it is only pocket change
to your parents. The Great basketball may partly justify the expenditure.
CHECK OUT these Bumper stickers on Durham!
http://liestoppers.blogspot.com/2006/08/another-alibi-witness-discredited.html
I don't remember that article. Do you know how long ago it was and which rag published it? I'd like to read it. Do you remember in what way the DA had the ability to "punish" judges?
Is that what you think about Bush or what Cash thinks?
Well done (also as in "stick a fork in 'im") :>
What Cash thinks.
My point was wouldn't he do that to George Bush.
Would he, and other journalists, claim they shouldn't involve themselves in elections.
Point was to prove a double standard.
Honoring the black woman? How about blacks honoring the black woman and the black woman honoring herself?
http://www.heraldsun.com/opinion/hsletters/
Attack on Cheeks' supporters unwarranted
So Leo Radek in his Aug. 20 letter compares Beth Brewer and Tom Muellenbach to Abbott and Costello. As the compelling and repulsive facts unfold of how the Duke Hoax was perpetrated on Durham (and even the nation) by a self-absorbed, politically motivated district attorney, Radek would prefer the status quo.
Radek turns his eyes from the other ugly facts to be faced. District Attorney Mike Nifong kicked the small businessman who still waits for his $25,000 restitution to the curb when Kim Roberts went conveniently from a "crock" to a "could be." The taxi driver facing trial on a three-year-old solved case because when investigators picked him up he couldn't remember anything to suit Nifong's agenda.
Radek wrote a letter to mock local people like Beth Brewer and Tom Muellenbach, who with no political experience or agenda, with no advantage or gain for themselves, step forward to say Durham deserves better. They stand in stark contrast to the self-serving Nifong. Their campaign is an act of sacrifice for them, bringing a burden into their already busy lives when they are neither public nor political operatives.
Perhaps they believe, as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. did, that "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Perhaps it's easy, even comfortable to laugh when it is not your family, or your children or your business at stake. You giggle in a comfortable detachment.
King also said the "Hottest place in hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great conflict." Gosh, think there might be a seat reserved for Radek?
LYNN KASPER
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio
August 22, 2006
That's what I keep trying to tell everybody who jumps on the Cash Michael's bandwagon.
That's comforting to read. I sure do hope it's true.
Fpr those leaving voice mail messages on Nodong's recorder, how about leaving one featuring the sound of a train derailing?
Originally, that is what the Grand Jury system was devised to do - serve as a "check" on the prosecution - the king's prosecutor. In most jurisdictions, the indicting GJ simply serves as a rubber stamp. Many states have done away with requiring indictment from a GJ and go the Information and probable cause hearing route.
DA Lacey's analysis of Karr's guilt was very tepid. At no time did she imply that "We have our man."
There was so much media coverage of Karr's confession and the statements he's made, the Boulder DA had to go on and say something. I really don't see her as grandstanding. But like you, I don't see any railroading going on.
I wonder how many NCCU students volunteer for good works. They don't mind stepping up to a bullhorn and some stupid protest sign with a lying slogan on it, but charity work? I haven't seen any homies givin' it up for the needy.
I don't know if he will, assuming there's no conviction, but I hope he does. He shouldn't let a lying whore and desperate, mediocre government functionary run him off from a first-class education and degree from a top-flight university.
That's what I thought. Just wanted to be sure of your intent. :>
Do you know if the Lax players were Mirandized when they first started giving statements to the DPD? I ask because that's now an issue with the Karr/Ramsey thing in Colorado.
"Do you know if the Lax players were Mirandized when they first started giving statements to the DPD?"
I don't think so. I think they first spoke to the detectives for several hours, freely giving information, without attorneys present. I don't think the police have to Mirandize anyone until they are placed under arrest (at least, as far as I understand it),
and if the players were freely offering information (to the "friendly" and "cooperative" detectives, who were just trying to help them get this ridiculous charge cleared . . .) then there would have been no need to Mirandize them.
After all, they weren't going to be charged, were they???
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