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THIS edition of The Liberal Boutique is dedicated to Prof. Martin S. Feldstein, without whom this column wouldn't be nearly so much...
Core Lite Dept.: A word about The Liberal Boutique's favorite topic--Social Analysis 10. An anonymous Ec 10 section leader tells me that Prof. Martin S. Feldstein, not content to head one of Harvard's largest courses, is out to increase enrollment. "Marty thinks everyone should take it," he said...
...fall of 1946 when I was studying at the School for Oriental Studies in the University of London I received a request from Prof. Karl Menges of Columbia asking me if I could help Nicholas Poppe who was hiding in the Ruhr to escape American and British attempts to repatriate him to the USSR. I went to the US Army headquarters service (still at the time the OSS or its successor) and in a jeep went north looking for Poppe whom we finally found in Rittergut (estate) called Boeckel, newar Duesseldorf. We gave him a code name `Pushkin' and then...
Appearances by guests like Kennedy accomplish two things, which Broder and the other talk-radio bashers neglect. The common man, who normally has no access to a expert like Kennedy, gets the opportunity to engage in dialogue with the Yale prof. And the Yale prof, usually surrounded by Ivy-League academics, is able to hear what the general public thinks of his book...
Since any self-respecting professor can be found on the Cape in the summer months, you might think a trip there over the break would leave you alone on the beach with your history prof. But not to worry--March is safe. All the academics are grading papers in their offices...