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...headquarters is one long room, a former storefront with the green floor tiles peeling up and coming loose. There are eight battered wooden desks with telephones, stacks of brochures, a table piled with sodas and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, a fax machine, a Canon copier and a coffee maker at work...
...have tried hard to be sensitive to minority concerns must have found this a bitter and unjustified rebuke. But to be fair to the Black students who clapped when he used that line, however, we should remember when it cropped up. Jeffries was only making the claim that cultural canon in America consistently undervalues the achievements of Black people, and that the universities, insofar as they are central to the definition and dissemination of "culture," are bastions of this white-centered world-view. It's not a view I can accept without reservation, but it certainly...
Cole calls Literature and Arts A-50 both "popular" and "politically correct," as if, like Thernstrom, he would like to suggest that the canon, the institution, even the tenured professor, is being threatened by the overwhelming collective power of identity politics. Way back when Cole was an undergraduate at Columbia--in the 1980s--all the kids had to study "mainly the works of dead white males," but nobody seemed to mind, he says. I am not particularly interested here in a debate about the relative merits of Harvard and Columbia's core systems; it seems to me of little difference...
...sign, which goes into full computer-controlled action next month, is part of a comeback in flashy Times Square billboards. But this time most of them were erected by Japanese companies, including Canon, Sony, Fuji Film and Suntory liquors...
...rivals. America's technological edge -- its insurance policy against economic decline -- has been narrowing. Flush with cash, Japan has outspent the U.S. on investment and research, devoting nearly 3% of economic spending to nondefense research, while American R. and D. spending remained under 2%. Four Japanese companies -- Hitachi, Toshiba, Canon and Fuji -- each captured more American patents in 1989 than any single U.S. firm. Predicts William Archey, senior vice president for policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "We haven't even begun to see the products of that investment...