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Scrapbook Well, Duuuh All obvious jokes about obviousness aside, there were some genuinely interesting and useful data in reporter John Tierney’s November 18 New York Times account of recent...
...Genial but scruffy Red Sox centerfielder Johnny Damon was unavailable for comment...
...THE SCRAPBOOK can’t decide: Maybe it was a translation problem...
...Berkeley linguistics professor George P. Lakoff must not have gotten the memo...
...Or maybe somebody over at the New York Times corrections desk was just back from a trip to the dentist’s office and the anesthesia hadn’t quite worn off...
...And, if anything, Klein figures it’s likely to grow worse, not better: Younger, junior-faculty ranks are almost exclusively Democratic...
...The more we know about how our postal deliveries are working, the better we’ll be able to identify and fix whatever specific problems might still exist...
...Incidentally: Longtime WEEKLY STANDARD readers may remember that Paul Findley offered up an equally prize-worthy mot injuste in the spring of 2001 when his unfortunately timed book Silent No More dubbed Osama bin Laden “one of the preeminent heroes of Afghans, occupying a role similar to the Marquis de Lafayette” during the American Revolution...
...Scrapbook Well, Duuuh All obvious jokes about obviousness aside, there were some genuinely interesting and useful data in reporter John Tierney’s November 18 New York Times account of recent survey research by Santa Clara University economics professor Daniel Klein...
...We hope and expect this change also means that many of our subscribers will receive their copies sooner...
...But Berkeley officials, for their part, “dispute the accusations of faculty bias” that might naturally arise from data like this...
...But we’d like to make sure—and we intend to do whatever we can to speed things up still further—so we’re once again requesting your assistance...
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...It read: ‘Silence = Deadly...
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...Microsoft is a distant sixth...
...Klein’s separate, more detailed survey of the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford faculties, for example, identified 183 Democratic assistant and associate professors, but only 6 Republicans...
...Not coincidentally, as Tierney is canny enough to note, Federal Election Commission records indicate that the University of California employs more people who made financial contributions to John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign than any other single employer in the United States...
...Curse of the Lame Braino The competition has been fierce, but top honors for Dumbest Analogy in a Yasser Arafat Obituary must go to former congressman and still-active Israel-o-phobe Paul Findley...
...Unlike conservatives,” Lakoff explains, “they believe in working for the public good and social justice, as well as knowledge and art for their own sake, which are what the humanities and social sciences are all about...
...And here’s David Remnick again, same piece, eight paragraphs later: “He ruled the West Bank and Gaza as his fief, personally controlling accounts filled with billions in foreign money and doling out lucrative concessions to his deputies and millions in cash to his wife...
...Professor Klein has conducted a nationwide poll of 1,000 fellow academicians and found that among fulltime faculty in the humanities and social sciences, Democrats now outnumber Republicans by a factor of at least seven to one...
...These principles are respected by all of our faculty at U.C...
...Speaking = Death...
...Come to think of it, Findley added, “While watching the recent World Series, it occurred to me that Arafat would fit comfortably with the scruffy but genial Red Sox players...
...Speaking = Death...
...The essence of a great university is developing and sharing new knowledge as well as questioning old dogma,” chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau tells the Times...
...Harvard ranks second...
...How’s That Again...
...What’s the fuss about, he wonders...
...International Man of Mystery Speaking of Yasser Arafat . . . Here’s David Remnick, in a November 22 New Yorker obit headlined “The Old Man”: “Modest in his personal habits and his material desires, Yasser Arafat was grandiose only in his sense of mission...
...But Thinking — That, Never!’ (not ‘Mouth Shut = Deadly...
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...Writing in the November 9 Daily Star, an English-language newspaper published throughout the Middle East, Findley wistfully recalled how the PLO chairman’s “perpetually scruffy beard belied his genial, warm manner...
...Housekeeping Note THE WEEKLY STANDARD has recently switched printers, which means, among other things, that subscribers’ copies are now being mailed from a different city...
...van Gogh’s funeral...
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...Of course there aren’t but a handful of Republican professors at American universities: It’s only liberals who have the mind and spirit for the job...
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...This was the Times’s lead correction-column item on November 11: “A picture caption yesterday with an article about polarization in the Netherlands over the killing of Theo van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker, by a man the police have described as a Muslim extremist, gave an incorrect translation of a sign displayed at Mr...
...Capisce...
...Except for the part about murdering Jews, presumably...
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Vol. 10 • November 2004 • No. 11
