Posted in In English, life on Jul 2nd, 2007 1 Comment »
Around 7:30 in the morning, a message came into my email box. It was from the new Harvard president Drew Faust:
“I sit here in my new office in Massachusetts Hall, amid boxes to be unpacked, letters to be answered, and books to be shelved. But the computer works just fine, and so I […]
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Posted in In English, life on Jun 18th, 2007 No Comments »
Dr. Michiko Aoki, one of my colleagues of East Asia Legal Study Center (EALS) at Harvard Law School, passed away a few days ago. I was shocked when I heard about this. I could not believe because I felt that I had seen her the day before.
Dr. Michiko is a very kind and humble person. […]
Posted in 中文, life on Jun 16th, 2007 1 Comment »
关于”爱在哈佛”(http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/love),前日已经发了一个关于该站冒用本人姓名的声明.后检索该作者的其他blog post,发现可疑之处不少,故发电子邮件向有关人士询问. 今日收到回音,证实该blog作者抄袭了临江仙女士的诗作”满庭芳”,并曾加以篡改.
临江仙雅量容人,来信澄清事实之外,没有再追究的意思.她的blog网站上只淡淡地评论了两句,照录如下:
虽然在网络时代这种事情实在没什么可新鲜的了，不过偶尔发生在自己身上的时候，还是觉得有意思，至少会想知道，那到底是个什么人呢？能在法学院blog网站上发文章的，应该是确有其人，且确在法学院念书的罢。法学院我不认识什么人，可是经常经过的地方，也许在某个日子，曾与其擦身而过？他既然看过我的space，自然不难认出我，那他在相遇的刹那，脸上是什么样的表情，心里又会有什么样的心情？
看来法学院如果再不处理,恐怕真要背上黑锅了–我倒不觉得这人是法学院的,理由如下:我曾问过法学院多位同学,都不知道这位冒充”国际法院助理法官”的仁兄到底是何方神圣(国际法院从没有”助理法官”);接着又发现这位仁兄居然连英文的基本句子结构都不懂–如今发表在其首页上的英文post简直是现眼;如今又收到临江仙的信确认其抄袭.
犯不上大动干戈. 如临江仙所言:
最近烦心的事情已经够多了，这一件，就当作一个小笑话调剂一下罢。
(临江仙女士原作见http://linjiangxian1983.spaces.live.com/)
Posted in In English, life, reading on Apr 10th, 2007 No Comments »
Here is an insteresting article about law school politics.
”Bias, the Brain, and Student Evaluations of Teaching “
Merritt, Deborah Jones, “Bias, the Brain, and Student Evaluations of Teaching” (January 2007). Ohio State Public Law Working Paper No. 87 Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=963196
Student evaluations of teaching are a common fixture at American law schools, but they […]
Posted in In English, life on Apr 7th, 2007 8 Comments »
The following story is from Leither’s report :
http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/452488/17376234
,and, The Record:
http://media.www.hlrecord.org/media/storage/paper609/news/2007/04/05/News/Autoadmit.Lifts.Veil.Of.Anonymity-2826053.shtml?reffeature=textemailedition
Controversy over Ciolli/Cohen “Discussion” Board Continues: “Autoadmit” Profiled on List of “Unethical” Websites
Here; an excerpt:
AutoAdmit bills itself as “the most prestigious law school admissions discussion board in the world”…. “[P]restigious” isn’t the word for AutoAdmit. “Infamous” is more accurate. “Slimy” may be […]
Posted in Joke, 中文, life on Jan 27th, 2007 2 Comments »
凤凰卫视请了个骗子上电视大讲野狐禅: 该骗子竟然五迷三道地讲在修佛法的过程中与”金刚”面对面. 更妙的是,北大居然也请了同一个骗子去学校讲演. 可发一叹.–这就是中国最受欢迎的电视台和中国最高学府的眼光和见识.
凤凰卫视文化大观园栏目博客 http://whdgy.blog.phoenixtv.com/user1/whdgy/archives/2007/608517.html
叶曼和她的佛缘
消息来自北大中文论坛 www.pkucn.commenuregister(false, “forumlist”) » 中国古代文学 » 初学问津 » 【文字稿】凤凰卫视：国学大师叶曼回首同南怀瑾学习佛法的往事
http://www.pkucn.com/viewthread.php?tid=190521&extra=page%3D1
Posted in Joke, 中文, life, China on Nov 21st, 2006 No Comments »
（转帖）Smurf,《蓝精灵》和共产主义
《蓝精灵》出现于六十年代中期左右，应该说全盛时期就是六、七十年代，众所周知，此时正是西欧左派运动热火朝天之时。西欧的许多知识分子仍然为共产主义或各种版本的社会主义所所深深吸引。据说，《蓝精灵》这个动画片里也带有社会/共产主义思想的深深印记。甚至有人怀疑，《蓝精灵》是作者用以宣传共产主义观念的一种特别的手段——利用文艺形式来达到其政治目标。而《蓝精灵》面对的对象主要是儿童，也就是说，希望在成长中的八九点钟的太阳身上灌输某种共产主义的理想。还有好事者指出，所谓的Smurf实质上是暗示Soviet/Socialist Men Under Red Father （红色父亲领导下的苏维埃/社会主义人民），当然这个说法是占不住脚的，因为在原著里蓝精灵的名字是Schtroumpf，而Smurf只不过是英文翻译。
Posted in In English, life on Nov 18th, 2006 3 Comments »
Go is a traditional Chinese game.
Rule: Players place alternately black and white stones on the vacant intersections of a 19×19 rectilinear grid. A stone is captured and removed if it is tightly surrounded by stones of the opposing color. The objective is to control a larger territory than the opponent by placing one’s stones so […]
Posted in In English, life, Comments on Oct 10th, 2006 No Comments »
A bunch of leading corporate lawyers were invited to the M&A class by Vice Chancellor Strine, in order to explain the merger contract clauses to us. I was struck by their skill of playing with words. For them, it is truly “life is like a law school examination everyday”. i.e. Accuracy of Representations could be […]