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Harvard is, apparently, the best university in the world, despite lack of cookies. The school has plenty of kooks, though, or at the very least a very major one: conservative columnist Peggy Noonan, who has parlayed her avoidance of poor people into heading a study group at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Good call, Peggy: Harvard doesn't dig the poor, either!

--Police Commissioner Edward Davis has reacted to the information that corruption in the Boston Police Department might have extended beyond former officer Roberto Pulido and his sketchy crew. He even put a video on YouTube declaring that he will investigate the allegations. He said, "I will continue to press for the strictest sanctions against police corruption so that the excellent police work that I see every day from our officers will not be tarnished."...

The Darfur/Darfur Exhibit will be at the Institute of Contemporary Art on Friday, September 7, in the Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater. The exhibit of photographs will run from 10 am to 3 pm and is free with regular admission. Tickets to the lecture and Yo-Yo Ma performance are already sold out, but you will be able to hear it outside the ICA. Sometimes "awareness-raising" only goes so far, especially when it comes to...

We've embedded this super long above discussion from Google Video here because the real video stream from the KSG presentation is being finicky and we'd have to upgrade our flash player to actually see the clips on the Comedy Central Colbert page.

Maybe Romney is upset that he can't pronounce Ahmadinejad correctly (who can?). Perhaps he's afraid that there aren't enough of the Chargers for the Staties to drive. Or maybe he's just making another calculated move for a potential 2008 Presidential bid. Whatever the case may be, Romney has ordered to refuse all requests for security details in protection of the former Iranian president, Mohammad Khatami. A visit by Khatami has been scheduled for this Sunday, September 10 at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. We haven't been able to uncover any evidence of a deliberate effort to make this happen on the eve of the five-year anniversary of the September 11th attacks, but it's certainly received much media mention. Despite Romney's pledge, the visit is still on schedule.

Boston intellectuals are once again duking it out on the international stage, this time in the Wall Street Journal and the London Review of Books. Professor Ruth Wisse, Harvard Professor of Yiddish and comparative literature, has a piece in today's Journal (online version requires subscription) in which she assails Professors Stephen Walt, of Harvard's Kennedy School, and John Mearsheimer (of U. Chicago) for their article in the British publication, which suggests that U.S. foreign policy decision makers are in the thrall of a small group of moneyed, pro-Israel lobbyists, and that support for Israel is not in the United States' best interest. (Walt and Mearsheimer's longer working paper, on which the LRB piece is based, can be seen here.)

Bostonist could not believe our eyes when the weekly JFK Jr. Forum calendar "pinged" into our mailbox - next Monday, December, 5 at 6:00 PM none other than Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward will be part of a panel discussion entitled, "ANONYMOUS SOURCES: Lessons Learned." Back when Bostonist was just a wee little News Editor on our high school newspaper, the book and movie All the President's Men made us believe in the power...

This afternoon Al Franken rocked Air America’s AM airwaves* from right here in the Hub. As part of a nation-wide book tour Franken made his appearance in Boston and coupled it with a broadcast of his three hour program from the Wilbur in the Theatre District. Harvard alum Franken pulled on the alumni network to fill his show's time slot. Robert Putnam from the Kennedy School of Government, Laurence Tribe from Harvard Law School, Julius Richmond and Rashi Fein form Harvard Medical School, Atul Gawande from the Harvard School of Public Health joined Franken and Harvard College and Harvard Law School grad and current Congressman Barney Frank for conversations. Boston, "a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America,” according to Senator Santorum, was home to the progressive talk show and a half dozen of those liberal elites from that little school across the river, Harvard. Franken’s “zero spin zone” conversed with some intelligentsia before Franken hopped the red line into his hired car service on his way back up to Cambridge where he read from his new book The Truth (with jokes) at the Charles Hotel in – wait for it – Harvard Square. Bostonist doesn’t really have a problem having that prestigious University across the river, but it seems like Franken focused a bit too much “in the community” and overlooked some of the gems that Boston has to offer. Just think what he could have done with Mitt on the radio. It was nice to have you back in the Hub, Al, even if you were just promoting Ve Ri Tas (with jokes).