Word: redux
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Recession Redux "The Price of Greed" is great reporting [Sept. 29]. Andy Serwer and Allan Sloan compressed a staggering amount of information into five pages and still made this trajectory of avarice remarkably clear. Now that I think I understand it, I wish I didn't feel so angry. Edward Claymore, Laguna Woods, California...
...which has little to show after five years of debate. Although a preliminary report released a year and a half ago contained inspiring promises of engaged intellectualism and global citizenship, Gen Ed has since then devolved into an insipid mash-up of compromises that is essentially a redux of the old Core. A scant 37 Gen Ed courses have been approved for the 2008-2009 academic year, and only seven more for the following fall. Despite being set to supplant the long-criticized Core curriculum by 2009, a mere 60 proposals have even been submitted, many of which are nothing...
...Morrison on Clinton, Redux Though the reason Toni Morrison gives for calling Bill Clinton the "first black President" sounds very nice ("I said he was being treated like a black on the street [during the Monica Lewinsky scandal], already a perp"), Morrison should reread the article she wrote for the New Yorker to see her original reasons [May 19]. They do not in any way resemble what she says now. Clinton, she wrote in October 1998, "displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas...
...seems odd that Madonna would choose to follow her followers. Why would she hire the people that everyone hires? Mariah, Gwen, Nelly, Britney, J. Lo and even Ashlee turned to these men to help them find a new sound. Madonna, however—after the massively successful disco redux “Confessions on a Dancefloor”—didn’t need to hire the most obvious and dependable people in the music industry to produce her new album...
Mansfield will preside over what he said he hopes will be a “respectful debate” over the “legacy and future of feminism.” SUMMERS REDUX...