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Among other changes, the magazine adjusted themeasure of instructional expenditures in the lawschool category to account for cost of living...
With all respect to the young man who reported my remarks at Harvard Hall (News, Feb. 23), I am not the Colonel Blimp his account makes me out to be. I did not condemn "universities" as your headline writer puts it either. I deplored the situation on liberal arts faculties, which tend to be dominated by an intolerant and exclusionary professorial left. Like most liberal arts colleges, Harvard has but a handful of conservatives among its hundreds of faculty. This is inexcusable. It is the product of a hiring process that has become highly (if often subtly) political...
There are several instance where your reporter's account does not reflect my views accurately. Let me merely cite his opening summation: "The dangerous beliefs of the New Left are destroying American universities, according to neo-conservative author David Horowitz...." What I said was that the intellectual tradition of the left provided the paradigms that caused self-styled progressive and Marxist governments to kill 100 million of their own people, in peacetime, in order to realize their impossible dreams. I further said that while utopianism is primarily now latent in the ideologies of the left, its Siamese twin nihilism, with...
...With all respect to the young man who reported my remarks at Harvard Hall (News, Feb. 23), I am not the Colonel Blimp his account makes me out to be. I did not condemn "universities" as your headline writer puts it either. I deplored the situation on liberal arts faculties, which tend to be dominated by an intolerant and exclusionary professorial left. Like most liberal arts colleges, Harvard has but a handful of conservatives among its hundreds of faculty. This is inexcusable. It is the product of a hiring process that has become highly (if often subtly) political...
Telecom customers will soon have a new weapon in the fight against "slamming," the notorious practice in which a long-distance provider swipes your account without your permission--subjecting you to big charges. Under new FCC guidelines that take effect in the next two months, slamming victims can pay their chosen carrier at normal rates instead of paying the higher, disputed bill. Also, telcos will no longer be able to make a switch just because you failed to mail back a firm "no" to their offer...