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  • At the Sept. 23 meeting, the board voted on 16 professors up for emeritus status; only Mr. Ayers's request was rejected.

    Controversy Trails Ayers in Retirement Douglas Belkin 2010

  • "Using the chi-square statistic," observes one professor, "Obama's and Ayers's books were indistinguishable, while Obama's book was easily distinguishable from books by other authors."

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • [Ayers's] memoir is a breath of fresh air in this self-absorbed age.

    November « 2008 « Bill Ayers 2008

  • To Teach updates Ayers's 1993 book of the same title -- except this time around he's featured in comic panels whose only facial features are dark hair, opaque glasses, and a mustache.

    Dan Brown: Bill Ayers is Back... with a Brilliant Graphic Novel 2010

  • [Ayers's] memoir is a breath of fresh air in this self-absorbed age.

    FUGITIVE DAYS: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist 2008

  • I know quite a few on-the-ground educators who would agree with the Ayers's succinct sentence: "Teachers often work in difficult situations under impossible circumstances, with too many kids, too little time, stingy resources, and heartless bureaucrats peering through the door."

    Dan Brown: Bill Ayers is Back... with a Brilliant Graphic Novel 2010

  • The effect of the Times's 135 column-inches and the longhair Sixties photos and the fingerprints and picture of Ayers's arrest -- the effect of this peculiar treatment was, by the very fact of bringing the matter into discussion, to support the idea of some connection between Obama and the word "terrorist."

    David Bromwich: Party Watchwords: Fairness and Fear 2010

  • First-time graphic novel artist (and teacher) Ryan Alexander-Tanner gives life to Ayers's vision with sharp black-and-white drawings that provide engaging context for Ayers's assertions.

    Dan Brown: Bill Ayers is Back... with a Brilliant Graphic Novel 2010

  • The effect of the Times's 135 column-inches and the longhair Sixties photos and the fingerprints and picture of Ayers's arrest -- the effect of this peculiar treatment was, by the very fact of bringing the matter into discussion, to support the idea of some connection between Obama and the word "terrorist."

    Party Watchwords: Fairness and Fear 2010

  • Several times, Ayers's class is visited by self-important bureaucrats designed as buffoonish, literally caricatured characters -- the female curriculum cop has no nose and a bob approximately twice the mass of her head.

    Dan Brown: Bill Ayers is Back... with a Brilliant Graphic Novel 2010

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