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Save the Wttson Quarterly! In the ongoing appropriations battles on Capitol Hill, there was good news last week. House Republicans found the nerve to take substantial steps toward eliminating two...
...Chopra and to our readers...
...Or fax us at (202) 293-4901...
...Why shouldn't Elmo cost a bundle...
...Its flagship publication, the Wilson Quarterly, likewise is one of the few scholarly magazines not given over to cant—see, for example, its recent celebration of the Victorian virtues or its cluster of articles, last winter, on "What's Wrong with the American University...
...We apologize to Dr...
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...House Republicans found the nerve to take substantial steps toward eliminating two government programs...
...Or, as the Washington Post put it last week in a story signed by John D. Cramer: "The Khmer Rouge overthrew the Phnom Penh government in 1975 and launched a four-year experiment in agrarian communism...
...Chopra's teachings and writings, the Editors now believe that our cover art and our use of terms like "huckster" and "Hindu televangelist" were inappropriate and unjust...
...It would serve to remind American moms and dads that their children are playing with toys made by political prisoners in the Chinese gulag...
...It's hard to make such a case against the other program Republicans targeted, however—the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars...
...Chopra...
...Chopra plagiarized a chart from another published work...
...Based on evidence that we recently received, we also retract the conclusion that Dr...
...More broadly, upon further examination of Dr...
...On Deepak Chopra: A Correction and an Apology The July 1, 1996 issue of The Weekly Standard featured a cover story on the best-selling author Deepak Chopra...
...Chopra's work were misleading...
...So says a study by something called "The Trade Partnership...
...But if it has to go, there are dozens—scores!—of obnoxious programs that should go with it...
...We regret any harm that may unjustly have been done to Dr...
...And what kind of impact...
...Having somehow resisted the p.c...
...Based on evidence provided to us over the past year, we are now convinced that Dr...
...Truth be told, though, we hope that obvious solution doesn't occur to the National Retail Federation...
...While we operated in good faith in publishing the article, we are now convinced that certain allegations reported in that story were false...
...Well, that's one way to put it...
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...We believe that Dr...
...Which families...
...Chopra's signature to charge those services...
...In their lack of discrimination, House Republicans call to mind Evelyn Waugh's famous comment on the surgeon who removed a benign tumor from Randolph Churchill...
...One of them is the National Endowment for the Arts...
...Pol Pot may not have Hitler's or Stalin's or Mao's numbers, but his percentage is impressive: He and his followers killed between 2 and 3 million of their fellow Cambodians in the second half of the 1970s (following America's withdrawal of support from South Vietnam), almost one-third of the entire population...
...trendi-ness that has contaminated the academy, the Wilson Center, under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, remains one of the few havens for disinterested scholarship in the country...
...Chopra did not engage the services of a prostitute in 1991...
...Funereal Pol Good news on the genoci-dal-monster front: Pol Pot—as of this writing—is reportedly surrounded, pinned down near the Cambodian-Thai border by some 1,000 defectors from his Khmer Rouge...
...Chopra that we now believe to be erroneous...
...We trust that this correction and apology will help in repairing any such harm, and will set the record straight...
...Chopra's reputation...
...Of course, Elmo could be manufactured someplace other than China...
...China MFN is not some ideological debate," National Retail Federation president Tracy Mullin announced at a news conference June 16...
...While it is obviously appropriate to debate the merits of Dr...
...That would keep the price down, you'd think...
...Chopra's representatives has convinced us that someone else used a credit card with Dr...
...Evidence provided by Dr...
...It does have some real-life impact on American families...
...Well, the "Tickle-Me Elmo" doll—that favorite licensed figurine of public television's Sesame Street—would rise in price to an unaffordable 50 bucks if China's preferential import tariffs were repealed...
...Chopra and to our readers...
...The Editors take full responsibility for these errors...
...It's badly managed, it funds occasionally raunchy and often third-rate projects, and in crucial ways its continuing influence is unhealthy for the arts as a whole...
...Poor and middle-income families, of course...
...Chopra's career and writing, we now believe that the general tone of our article was unfair to Dr...
...We also believe that aspects of our general characterization of Dr...
...The Editors Torture-Me Elmo_ American business has become an unflattering caricature of itself in the fight over renewed most-favored-nation trade status for the People's Republic of China...
...Chopra is sincere and forthright in his teachings, and regret our publication of allegations about Dr...
...Chopra's name and forged Dr...
...It was a typical triumph of modern science," said Waugh, "to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it...
...Let's be clear: In the ideal limited government that conservatives envision, there may well be no room for a government-funded Wilson Center...
...The case for dismantling the NEA is familiar to anyone who has heard the word "Mapplethorpe...
...Thus, we offer this apology to Dr...
...We also would no longer state that his company's herbal remedies have high levels of bug parts and rodent hairs, or levels higher than other such organic products...
Vol. 2 • June 1997 • No. 41
