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...want to experience the thrill of life and the victory of getting rich quick, cancel your Merrill Lynch interview. Don't apply to summer school. And definitely don't answer phones or file at a relative's office. During these months of applications and interviews, sit on the sidelines. None of these experiences are going to pay the bills or enhance your appreciation of what you've learned at school...
Near the end of Goodheart's piece, he refers to Winthrop Professor of History Stephan Thernstrom as one of "D'Souza's heroes...who are simply too cowardly to stand up to legitimate criticism of their scholarship, preferring to cancel their courses and then complain of 'thought control...
...figures involved are different, of course. Putnam's heroes were unabashed racists who probably did face repression on some campuses. D'Souza's heroes are professors like Stephan Thernstrom, who are simply too cowardly to stand up to legitimate criticism of their scholarship, preferring to cancel their courses and then complain of "though control...
These shows are especially hard to cancel as they tend to perpetuate themselves. A tragic story profiled on a show inspires another tragic story, which in turn, is profiled on the same show. The more Americans take these programs seriously, the deeper we fall into a sad new era in American culture--low-budget American realism...
China is also in effect asking for continued low American tariffs on its exports -- but in more truculent tones. When the House last week voted 313 to 112 to cancel most-favored-nation status next year unless China improves its human-rights record, Beijing denounced the "gross interference in China's internal affairs" and urged Congress "to stop this kind of practice." In other words, put up and shut...