Annals of Academic Hype

Amy Dockser Marcus, justifying her choice of Jerusalem 1913 as the title of her new history of the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict:

Any good scholar ... can marshal evidence to argue that [ther turning point] was two years earlier or four years later or a completely different time.

--As quoted by Austin Considine,
Book Review, SF Chronicle, May 6 2007

...or that it hasn't happened yet, or that it will never happen at all...