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It's Garage Logic with working on production, Chris Reaver's director of social media, John Hyde in

the newsroom, and occasionally Kenny from the Krabby coffee shop. Here is your flashlight king,

fireworks commissioner and keeper of common sense. The only are Joe Suschmann.

Emailer Tim says Joe is correct. We are going to get to the point where we can't talk to each other.

Let's start with this fellow, shall we?

I just, this is...

If it weren't so true, huh? The International Studies Association has rejected the appeal of a

professor who was found responsible for violating its code of conduct after he jokingly requested

that an elevator in a conference hotel be stopped at the lingerie department. Richard Lebo,

a professor at international, a professor of international political theory at King's College

London, responded by saying he would meet with his lawyer and expect to file a defamation lawsuit.

Lebo, who had threatened to sue the association unless it found that his favorite did not

immediately respond to a question about who exactly he'd sue. The association's lawyer,

in a letter, uh, related decision that no steps would be taken against Lebo if he offered

an unequivocal apology to Simona Sheroni, a professor of women's and gender studies at

Merrimack College who filed the complaint against him. If he does not apologize, the letter said

the association will issue a formal private letter of reprimand. The incident inspired the

uproar happened in April in a crowded elevator during the association's annual conference

at a Hilton Hotel in San Francisco. Okay. The conference by the International Studies Association.

Ah, fun. The incident at Spark the uproar happened in April in a crowded elevator during the

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