Ivory tower of love Sex at academic conferences was the open secret of the professorial class — at least until it made the agenda at an academic conference Sarah Treleaven, National Post Published: Friday, January 09, 2009 Sex at academic conferences was the open secret of the professorial class — at least until it made [...]
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE BEST ASSESSMENT YET OF THE WORKINGS OF THE “RECESSION”……. January 4, 2009 OP-ED CONTRIBUTORS The End of the Financial World as We Know It By MICHAEL LEWIS and DAVID EINHORN AMERICANS enter the New Year in a strange new role: financial lunatics. We’ve been viewed by the wider world [...]
TRY THIS AMERICAN IDEA — ABERDEEN ST COULD BECOME PART OF THE OLD WEST!! IF IT ALREADY ISN’T……. Gun Crazy: Firearms Proponents Want a World Where College Kids Carry Concealed Weapons By Liliana Segura, AlterNet. Posted December 9, 2008. The NRA and Co. have pushed campaigns to allow concealed-weapons permits on college campuses in 15 [...]
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, A STUDY IN WHAT HAPPENS TO DISSENTERS: NB, THE U.S. HAS USED THIS TACTIC IN ITS SCHOLARSHIP, PARTICULARLY THE CONSENSUS HISTORIANS OF THE 1940S-1960S….. THINK ABOUT IT….. December 9, 2008 Complainers in China Hospitalized By ANDREW JACOBS BEIJING — Local officials in Shandong Province have apparently found a cost-effective way [...]
JOHN YOO…..AT BOALT HALL AT UC BERKELEY….AN ARCHITECT OF THE U.S. TORTURE POLICY. AGAINST INTERNATIONAL LAW, AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION…..IS HE A FELON? FROM THE SF CHRONICLE/GATE Back to Article UC professor under fire for White House memo Carolyn Jones, Chronicle Staff Writer Friday, December 5, 2008 (12-04) 18:02 PST — Berkeley’s City Council will delve [...]
FROM THE GUARDIAN/OBSERVER, WITH THANKS TO ELIZABETH HANSON AND PAT RAE OF THE QUEEN’S ENGLISH DEPARTMENT…. The new Cicero Barack Obama’s speeches are much admired and endlessly analysed, but, says Charlotte Higgins, one of their most interesting aspects is the enormous debt they owe to the oratory of the Romans Charlotte Higgins Wednesday November 26 [...]
From Salon, sad…….. $6M Illinois tutoring center assists only athletes Nov 28th, 2008 | CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — At the University of Illinois, being an athlete gets you access to a $6 million facility with oversized leather chairs and Oriental rugs. But it’s not a fancy country club — it’s a tutoring center. The Irwin Academic [...]