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Ziegler is hardly the first author whose fiction takes place in a distinctive homeland. But she readily admits that Montana—once booming with a strip-mine economy, now characterized mainly by casinos, bars and interminable cold—is not an immediately attractive scene...
...deficit increase. The President has now promised to cut the deficit in half over the next five years. To achieve this ambitious goal, he wants to limit discretionary growth to 4% next year. But his budgeters are likely to make that number by not counting emergency, defense and homeland-security costs. Above all, the Bush team is counting on growing out of the deficit. If economic activity is robust, the thinking goes, revenues from taxes will increase despite lower rates. Thus far, the economy is doing its part to make that happen, churning in the third quarter at a scorching...
...Dream Jungle lacks the intimate, gossipy feel of Dogeaters, and its two story lines never manage to cohere. Although Hagedorn is clearly engaged with the effect of Spanish and American colonialism on her homeland, the reader wonders about her motive in basing the book on these two historical episodes. In the Philippines, the Tasaday saga is largely remembered for the international publicity?and later embarrassment?it wrought. Apocalypse Now was the next watershed of attention from abroad. Perhaps Hagedorn believes that foreign readers?she left the Philippines in 1962 and now lives in New York?need such recognizable signposts...
...area studies centers under the Higher Education Act. The Board, unelected officials accountable to no one, would be empowered to “monitor, apprise and evaluate the activities of grant recipients,” address ways the program could “reflect national needs related to homeland security” and assure that the area studies centers “reflect diverse perspectives and the full range of views.” Only strong opposition defeated clauses allowing the board to review syllabi and course materials, but those provisions could make it into the final version...
...money that comes from the government is spent transparently, and the only possible purpose for this board is to pressure universities into embracing a neo-conservative agenda at the risk of losing their funding. That academic research should be subjugated to the politically driven needs of “homeland security” is something out of a bad dream. The blatant attempt to affect hiring and tenure under the guise of promoting “diverse perspectives” is no more than a gross perversion of an otherwise laudable goal. Taken together, these measures would replace good research...