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...Perhaps Wilson's core committee seemed seemed to give the Humanities short shrift in the original report, the Faculty Council has seemingly overcompensated. It has devoted two of the new areas to "Arts and Letters" and "Foreign Languages and Cultures." There is nothing wrong with such a catch-all area as "Arts and Letters" except for the fact that it moves far away from the distinct headings of the task force's report. But the addition of "Foreign Languages and Cultures" in place of "Non-Western Civilization" effectively eliminates Rosovsky's hopes for everyone learning about Third World or Socialist...
Sick humor. That's what Paco loved, and he couldn't get enough of it. Gahan Wilson cartoons, Gary Gilmore jokes, National Lampoon raised to the nth degree--Paco took it all in and somehow managed to keep from gagging. His favorite, though, was a cartoon from Playboy or Penthouse or some other urbane excuse for a glossy fold-out with a staple in her navel. Wherever it was from, Paco didn't remember, he simply knew some friend had given it to him one night at a fund-raiser for the United Farm Workers which he attended because after...
...gloomier than some previous reports, the conclusion is not brand new. What makes it weighty is its global authorship. The report ("Energy: Global Prospects 1985-2000") is the product of a 2½-year study by the Workshop on Alternative Energy Strategies, a group organized by MIT Professor Carroll Wilson. He assembled 35 industrial, government and academic experts from twelve oil-importing nations and three exporters: Iran, Mexico and Venezuela. They plotted likely oil demand and supply under a wide range of assumptions: high and low rates of economic growth, "vigorous" and "restrained" government conservation policies, and the effects...
...consider high. It also assumes that no more than 20 billion bbl. per year-the equivalent of two Alaska North Slopes-can be added to the world's proven oil reserves. Some other studies have suggested that the amount of oil waiting to be found is much higher. Wilson says that the report was intended less as prophecy than as a call to action. It advocates unprecedented international cooperation in devising new technologies, sharing existing resources and enforcing conservation on a basis of "wartime urgency"-a phrase strikingly reminiscent of Jimmy Carter's call for the "moral equivalent...
...earned him a fortune speculating on foreign currencies, foresaw precisely how Europe would try to exact more reparations from Germany than the defeated nation could afford to pay, an impossibility that would lead to Germany's depressed hyper-inflation, and to Hitler. Keynes lambasted the parties to the peace: Wilson, "the blind and deaf Don Quixote" and Lloyd George, a "goat-footed bard." In response, the English establishment ostracized Keynes, criticising him not for his economics but for holding to an opinion that caused rejoicing to the nation's enemies. By the end of his chapter, Galbraith has sculpted...