Palestinian Scholar Edward W. Said Dies

Newsday ^ | 9/25/03 | The Associated Press

[Alter Kaker]

NEW YORK -- Edward W. Said, a Columbia University professor, literary critic and leading spokesman in the United States for the Palestinian cause, has died, his editor at Knopf publishers said Thursday. He was 67.

Said died at a New York hospital, said editor Shelly Wanger. He had suffered from leukemia at least since the early 1990s.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Knopf is the same outfit fronting X42 for his "memoirs." Is Knopf the Regnery of the far left?

[freedomson]

Did he explode himself??

Or did he just tell his people's children that suicide/homicide is the only option?

[dinasour]

Can't say I cared much for his positions, but RIP Professor Said.

[Nonstatist]

Good riddance.

[Chi-townChief]

Any mention of if Mr. Said went directly to hell? (Do not pass Go - do not collect ...)

[Pharmboy]

Now that he's gone I'm sure there are many at Columbia who will step up to replace terrorism's Man on Campus.

[Thinkin' Gal]

Palestinian Scholar Edward W. Said Dies

He has nothing more to say.

[m1-lightning]

That's one less class of students to be brainwashed.

[RoughDobermann]

I wonder what Professor Said said before he became dead...

[wideawake]

He was really a very reprehensible person.

He incited anti-Semitic violence, he worked hard all his life to degrade and politicize American academia, he caused a lot of pain and damage in his career.

I'm sorry to say it, but we really are much better off without him.

[Alter Kaker]

Is pronounced Sa-Eed. But no matter. Is ironic that "academic" works most known for late professor, post-collonial study of "Orientalism," are completely omitted from obituary. It is perhaps wrong to speak ill of dead, but this man was bad (but very influential) scholar in addition to supporter of bad politics.

[Soliton]

Perhaps Mr. Arafat should apply for the position.

[RoughDobermann]

Is pronounced Sa-Eed

Yes, I know. Just feeling a little goofy this morning.

[aculeus]

I hate to burden this site with even more bad news but ...

FRIENDS OF the fabled writer Gore Vidal are sympathizing. His companion of more than 50 years, the charming Howard Austin, died in Los Angeles Monday night. Gore says there will be no ceremony until someday when he and Howard are both laid to rest in Washington's Rock Creek Cemetery near the monument to Henry Adams.

http://www.nypost.com/gossip/liz.htm

[AmishDude]

Gore says there will be no ceremony until someday when he and Howard are both laid to rest in Washington's Rock Creek Cemetery near the monument to Henry Adams.

I can't figure out whether this is ghoulish (keep him on ice boys) or egotistical (he's nothing without me). Let's just chalk it up to the process of a diseased mind.

[DoughtyOne]

Like my grandmother used to tell me...

Much left unsaid!

[freedomcrusader]

Wasn't Said the guy suing Daniel Pipes for slander?

[Right Wing Professor]

Speak only good of the dead - but I'll make an exception for Edward Said. The world is a better place today.

[general_re]

Said and Austin? Much weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth...somewhere...I guess....