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SCHLOCK IS A MISUNDERSTOOD art, especially in the hands of Mordecai Richler, Montreal novelist and author of the screenplay for the new film, Joshua Then and Now. After the following hatchet job, I daresay you'll agree...
...degree from Harvard and a stint as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. According to Terry Hartle, education specialist for the American Enterprise Institute, when Bennett's posting was announced, it was "greeted with a sigh of relief by the educational community, who feared a hatchet man might be appointed." But the community soon learned that relief would not be spelled...
Well, it's pretty much agreed that Reagan should have Gosen a concentration camp from the start, no matter how much he wanted to bury the hatchet. The wounds of the death camps should be opened again and again, because only by making us wince repeatedly will we come closer to preventing something like that from happening again. There is no happy ending to the Holocaust. And if Reagan didn't know that before, he probably knows...
...disastrous attempt to bury the hatchet, Reagan had initially refused to visit Holocaust sites during his visit to Germany for the 40th anniversary of the end of World War II. Instead, he decided to visit a German war cemetery where some of Adolf Hitler's SS troops are buried...
Whether intended or not, you did a hatchet job on Duluth and its citizens, and in the process came off as a smart-assed elitist. If, in fact, that is you nature, Harvard credentials won't help you in the "real" world. If your article was an attempt at humor, I'd grade it an "F". You'll have to study more Jim Murray columns...