Never has a matchup between the best team in football and the worst team in football had this much riding on it. The Patriots, as we all know, have clinched the division, home-field advantage, and everything that matters in a typical season. The Miami Dolphins are God-awful, zooming towards the #1 draft pick, and would be in line for a season of historic ineptitude except that the stupid Ravens were worse last week. Should be......

Jimmy Carter spoke at Brandeis last night about his controversial book Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid, and the event was a civilized discussion instead of a much-feared shouting match among Carter, Alan Dershowitz, and Brandeis students. Keeping it civilized was a challenge. Brandeis screened questions that students asked of Carter, and the organizers had to keep Carter and Dershowitz in separate pens: "Dershowitz was kept out of the gym during the speech, but allowed to give......

Brandeis University won't let director Jonathan Demme film former president Jimmy Carter's speech at the school on Tuesday night. The Academy-Award-winning Demme is working on a documentary about Carter. Given the raging debate surrounding Carter's book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, and the events leading up to his speech, the event certainly should be part of any documentary about Carter. Alan Dershowitz, who was going to debate Carter in the initial invite from Brandeis, is still......

Last month controversy erupted surrounding an invitation extended President Jimmy Carter to speak at Brandeis. The invitation was extended by a trustee with the suggestion that he make Waltham a stop on his book tour and have a little debate with Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. Carter gave the idea a thanks but no thanks response. Carter’s newest book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid was publicly criticized by Dershowitz who has asserted that the former President......

Bostonist's brief post yesterday about Harvard President Larry Summers's resignation prompted an angry comment about the triumph of political correctness over common sense. In today's Globe, Alan Dershowitz voices a similar sentiment, albeit more eloquently and without calling anyone a "panty waste" (sic). This got Bostonist to thinking: Is Summers's ouster really because he dared voice unpopular ideas, or is it because he kept using a steamroller for jobs requiring tweezers? (This) Bostonist, as is......

The sex scandal at Milton Academy, in which several male hockey players received oral sex from a 15-year-old student, ended with a plea bargain yesterday. While following the story, Bostonist has been of two minds: On the one hand, we have always thought statutory rape laws were a little questionable, especially when the conduct occurs between consenting teenagers who are close in age. On the other hand, we understand that youths can be especially......