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Perhaps. It seems to me that his defense of canonization makes the debate simply an academic one among scholars who will use their own subjective criteria to determine what is "better." Bloom and his cronies will always decide Shakespeare and Austen are "better" than Kerouac and Toni Morrison...
...Gates say that his criteria are somehow more justifiable? Clearly the blind acceptance of all texts of difference would be a syllabus writer's nightmare, but don't the very structures an institutions of acceptance and denial ensure that some people will remain voiceless...
Technically, what is happening to the Japanese economy does not meet American criteria for a recession, normally defined as at least two consecutive quarters of negative growth. While economic growth has slowed in Japan, it has not ceased. Government economists are predicting a 3.5% increase in GNP for 1992. Outside experts are not so sanguine. But nearly everyone agrees that GNP growth in Japan is unlikely to slip into negative numbers, as it did last year in the U.S. and Britain. "There's no question that we are in a recession," pronounces Kunio Miyamoto, chief economist of the Sumitomo-Life...
...finding it difficult to find people who meet criteria of excellence," Bisson says...
...entirely clear whether the Law School's closed appointments process is discriminatory or whether the hiring criteria it uses are appropriate...