Of Friend and Faux

New York is all about conflict -- Clemens versus Piazza, Giuliani versus Sharpton, cabbies versus everyone -- but a major feud between two New York professors over a brazen academic hoax is now apparently, well, academic.

Alan D. Sokal, a physics professor at New York University, has joined forces with his one-time critic, Bruce W. Robbins, a visiting professor of English at Columbia University, to turn an Internet petition into a rallying cry for peace in the Middle

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