Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back".
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Indigenous academic Marcia Langton, who spoke after Scullion, defended Forrest's recommendations.
The first academic casualty of the Boston College-Jean McConville furore has been a parallel project which was to involve a London-based historian and an ex-RUC officer as well as retired members of the Garda Siochana in the Irish Republic, all with long records in fighting terrorism.
Anthony McIntyre, a former IRA life sentence prisoner and chief researcher on the Belfast project, defended the archive and blamed Boston College for failing to make clear to him and the interviewees that there was a legal treaty that allowed the British state to seize academic material from the United States.
McIntyre said that during legal challenges against the tapes handover Boston-based judge William Young, who read all the relevant interviews, described the project as a "bona fide academic exercise of considerable intellectual merit".
The academic Alison Wolf has done some fascinating research showing that countries with very good prospects for professional women also have extremely high - 90%-plus - proportions of women doing the very low-paid care work.
It is made up of judicial, practitioner and academic experts.
A leading academic study concludes there is "equivocal evidence regarding its magnitude".
Yellen's studied, academic, consensus-friendly approach is also another plus in her favor – particularly in comparison to Larry Summers, her bright but brash rival for the job.
He was a soldier in the second world war, and an academic who had an ability to get on with people of all backgrounds.
