Lee Bollinger Muffs It

Lee Bollinger has gotten a lot of criticism for his extremely harsh introduction of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, before a Columbia University audience on September 24th. Most of the criticism has been that it was a rude way to treat a guest. I'm not sure I buy that one: a politician coming to give a speech is not quite the same thing as a guest in one's home, and anyway Bollinger telegraphed quite clearly in advance that he would not be sparing in his remarks; Ahmadinejad could have cancelled if he were worried about how he...
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Wikipudiate?

Surprisingly, the verb “wikipudiate” does not seem to exist yet. At least, a Google search turns up no hits. I

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Responsible Archiving

This Friday I attended a productive and unexpectedly fascinating workshop at UC Berkeley, aimed at developing a model policy for

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Book Purge.

It was time. There were stacks of books sitting on the floor, for lack of space to shelve them. Even

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