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  • Harvard Law School Shears Its Shield

    March 7, 2016

    After months of study, a Harvard Law School committee recommended to Dean Martha Minow on March 3 that the School jettison a shield it has

  • Wanted: Zombies without a Past

    March 5, 2016

    Offense of the Month, March 2016

    Whatever you do, don’t do it. At least if you’re a retailer that, let’s say, sells bathing suits, polo

  • Polysemy, Now You Don’t

    February 21, 2016

    I’ve been thinking about people who proclaim themselves offended by words for which they mistakenly assume the wrong meaning. A celebrated example is “niggardly,” the