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...believed [VIEWPOINT, May 29], as it should be, the only people who retain a sliver of civility will be those we now regard as uncivilized--the ones who will not have had the opportunity to choose a personal digital assistant as their master. Orwell had it right. ERNEST M. HALLE Pittsburgh...
...Ernest Gruening '06, former United States Senator from Alaska, says Daniel Ellsberg '52 "should be given the equivalent of a Congressional medal of honor" for releasing the Pentagon Papers to the press. 4 - The University releases an affirmative action plan to comply with Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) regulations. Although increasing the number of minority employees, the plan draws criticism for keeping the hiring of women at a constant level. 5 - In his first major move as President, Bok lowers the male-female ratio for the Class of 1976 from...
...ERNEST SCHUMACHER...
...economists go, German-born Ernest F. ("Fritz") Schumacher was an oddball. He didn't believe in endless growth, mega-companies or unlimited consumption. His 1973 book with the bumper-sticker title Small Is Beautiful became an eco-bible (worldwide sales: 4 million copies). Urging the West not to foist fuel-gulping technologies on poor nations, he instead favored "appropriate" solutions--oxen, say, rather than job-eliminating tractors. In posthumous tribute, even the World Bank now agrees that small-scale aid projects, relying mainly on the people themselves, are indeed beautiful...
...knew we had IGP when they started resorting to the ringers," he said. "Ernest Hemingway was a real sign of desperation. He's been dead for forty years...