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...that there are certain neutral analytic tools within given disciplines that all must master, irrespective of political bend. In mastering the neutral analytic tools, one is then able to delineate one's own political biases by hypothesizing these biases, using the neutral analytic tools in a certain way to render a given conclusion or, if ingenious enough, by creating new analytic tools. It is no accident that the Cambridge-educated economist Joan Robinson aids Mao in his economic theories for the Chinese economy; or that Marxist historian Christopher Hill is Master of Balliol College, Oxford. They have mastered their respective...
...science of immunology dates back considerably farther than the year 1796. In the year A.D. 1000 the Chinese physician Yo-Meishan successfully inoculated the emperor's grandson with dried crusts of smallpox to render him immune from a serious attack. This practice of inoculation was introduced into England in 1721 by Lady Mary Wortley Montague, wife of the British Ambassador at Constantinople, who had had her son inoculated in Turkey...
...Bocuse preaches in favor of provincial simplicity in the tradition of the bonne femme who relies more on basic ingredients than complicated technique. "A chef, even a bad one, can never go wrong," he says, "if he has good raw materials." The point, as Bocuse sees it, is to "render unto a chicken that which is its due, and nothing more...
...Bergman himself does not render his best portrayals of women as real people in his three films that deal almost solely with women, Simon said. Only when his women participate in relationships with men does Bergman deal with them on a more human level, he added...
...economic analysis alone. But the answers do not all point in one direction; nor has "radical economics" provided us with a wholly different set of tools by which to find them, tools which cannot be linked with traditional analysis and which (as radical economists would have us believe) render communication between believers and non-believers impossible. A university, as I understand it, is not a multiple-ring circus where rival theologies parade their paradigms in competition, but a place where reasonable men argue with each other seeking mutual understanding and insights. All views should participate in this process...