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...sentence was decreed as an emergency measure to rescue a vital export industry by curtailing wool production. During the past 18 months, Australia's prime overseas customers have cut back on purchases, leaving a glut of fleeces. Moreover, wheat farmers expect to see their incomes halved this year, and home-grown citrus sales have also soured. At a time when much of Australia is taking to beaches and playgrounds, the dreaming high summer of the Lucky Country's interior has turned into a nightmare...
There are several home-grown examples of democratic representation as well. University Health Services regularly incorporates students in the search committees for new physicians and residents. UHS doctors should be able to relate to the student patients they tend to see. The advisory committee for the 1988 Radcliffe presidential search committee included two students as well...
CONSIDER the perennial fall Core favorite, "Justice." Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel takes a hoard of students on a dizzying flight through categorical and consequentialist reasoning, from politics based on independent standards of right to home-grown community justice. It is a worthwhile trip, but not a unique one. Upper level political philosophy courses also serve as a window into the conflict between the right and the good. Achieving harmony between our roles as citizens and as people is not a question that begins and ends in Moral Reasoning...
...Atlanta, as in a lot of other national cities, the large commercial institutions have passed from the hands of home-grown proprietors into the hands of itinerant managers. The middle-management hordes in the suburban office parks don't seem to have much to do with the city of Atlanta; some of them have hardly ever been there. Doug Marlette, the editorial cartoonist of the Atlanta Constitution, has been one of those lamenting the gentrification and homogenization and suburbanization of the city. In his comic strip, Kudzu, Marlette sums up what is happening in one evocative word: Bubbacide...
Johnson's effort in the first section to demystify deconstruction, both its imported and home-grown varieties, raises the issue of its paradoxical success at institutions such as Harvard and Yale. Given the movement's inherently anti-Establishment impulses and commitment to the subversion of institutions, how does one explain, for example, its appearance last year in the cover story of The New York Times Magazine, with a full-page, color photo of Derrida...