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...chair's establishment. He was reported to have proclaimed at that time, "This professorship will help reveal the truth about Turkey!" Over a year later, not a single History Department course description includes the words "Armenian Genocide." To what truth was Mr. Kandemir referring? Perhaps it was what philosopher Michel Foucault dubbed a "regime of truth," sanctioned and paid for by a political entity; many universities have become Turkey's willing agents in this endeavor...
...chairman Michel Pebereau, who is regarded as a maverick in the clubby world of French banking, hailed his plan as "the best possible for the French banking system," but Societe Generale and Paribas rejected the offer as unfriendly. Fighting to save their original merger, the two takeover targets promised an additional $280 million in savings to their shareholders, bringing the total to $1 billion, closer to Pebereau's pledge of $1.4 billion in "synergies" at the new bank...
...Michel Chaouli (Faculty, March 18) mistakes a political problem for a theoretical one. The fault is not in literary studies, but with literary studies. Academics in this field are not paid to produce anything, are not paid for the content of their work at all. Our society chooses to pay them to do what they do because they are a symbol of knowledge and tradition, regardless of how radical their theories might be. Really, it's only a kind of effete entertainment or, at best, private passion, for them. The truest words I ever heard in an English class were...
...Michel Chaouli (Faculty, March 18) mistakes a political problem for a theoretical one. The fault is not in literary studies, but with literary studies. Academics in this field are not paid to produce anything, are not paid for the content of their work at all. Our society chooses to pay them to do what they do because they are a symbol of knowledge and tradition, regardless of how radical their theories might be. Really, it's only a kind of effete entertainment or, at best, private passion, for them. The truest words I ever heard in an English class were...
...then, Michel Chaouli will continue urging his students and fellow scholars to embrace rather than lament the so-called crisis in literary studies...