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...Race for Resources That big piece of melting sea ice on the cover was identified as being on the shore of Nunavut, Canada [Oct. 1]. So what prompted you to take such artistic license and use the combination of flags you inserted into the image? Why isn't Canada's flag more clearly represented on your cover? George Walsh, Victoria, Canada...
...assailed. A host of popular writings from the 1980s on have charged universities with teaching too little, costing too much, coddling professors and neglecting students, embracing an “illiberalism” that has silenced open debate. A PBS special in 2005 described a “sea of mediocrity” that “places this nation at risk.” A report issued by the U.S. Department of Education last year warned of the “obsolescence” of higher education as we know it and called for federal intervention in service...
...Cellar Jazz Quintet. I put on the CD and Kenneth Rexroth came on, angrily spitting out the words to “Thou Shalt Not Kill.” Rexroth built up to the furious conclusion, damningly beating out, “And all the birds of the deep sea rise up / Over the luxury liners and scream, / ‘You killed him! You killed him. / In your goddamned Brooks Brothers suit, / You son of a bitch.’”Before Ferlinghetti’s recorded voice could take the audio stage, the phones...
...That's not a bad place to be, but you won't find Gore gloating about it. This prize, after all, is a recognition that Gore has done more than anyone else (excepting Mother Nature) to bring about a sea change in public opinion. An overwhelming majority of Americans - 90% of Democrats, 80% of independents, 60% of Republicans - now say they favor "immediate action" to confront the climate crisis. Gore helped make that happen, but he can't take too much satisfaction in it. As he told me last spring, "Time is running out, and we still haven't done...
...much of late September, the road to the eastern gateway of Rangoon's revered Shwedagon pagoda was a sea of maroon and saffron robes, as hundreds of Buddhist monks gathered to march in protest against Burma's military government...