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Dean of Massachussetts Law School Excoriates Harvard Law School on Plagiarism, Torture

Here.  Wow!

(Thanks to Anthony D’Amato for the pointer.)

UPDATE:  Most memorable line:

[W]hile I have always been in favor of diversity of viewpoints on a faculty, and our own faculty ranges from very liberal to quite conservative — although we see no need to hire the right wing kooks who seem to be taking over the world — I have lately begun to wonder about the intellectual diversity argument. The right wing has taken over the government, radio, part of television, a significant part of the newspaper world, and certain religiously based universities. Having taken over much of the world, is it really necessary that they be given a major voice in universities too? They’ve done pretty well without a major foothold at lots of universities. Why give these nuts still more power?

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