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Archive for July, 2006

New College freshmen: Ready to get ripped off with overpriced textbooks? Your college bookstore can’t wait

Monday, July 31st, 2006

If you or your family are wealthy, you can just stop reading this now.  Getting ripped off by buying an college English reader for $70 instead of a better book for $15 shouldn’t bother you.  Even if you take two semesters of English and pay $140 instead of $30, big deal.  You’re already shelling out […]

Dyslexic college and high school students: free CD audio book textbooks

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

If you can get a signed letter from a communications professional that you have dyslexia, did you know you can now get virtually any textbook on CD?  The non-profit agency in Princeton, NJ is switching from audio cassettes to CD’s this month and by July 2007, they will ONY have textbooks on CD.  This is […]

Why is ‘Heart of Darkness’ required reading?

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

Hundreds of references to that famous book of untoward imperialism have been made in the past few years by writers who write for a living or for those for whom it is an avocation: but nearly all of them portray the U.S. as Kurtz and Africa as the Middle East. Is this coincidence?

India rejects M.I.T. proposal for one laptop, one child

Friday, July 28th, 2006

M.I.T. Professor Negroponte proposed to sell India laptops for $100 each to bring high tech into the classroom. This was quickly rejected by local education ministers, implying a pateral attitude on the plan’s developers and further claiming research on the efficacy of computers and education is not […]

The administration moves from obsession to incompetence to the absurd in “diplomatic Disneyland.”

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

Tony Karon got it exactly right today on Time.com, when he wrote that Condi Rice is in a “diplomatic Disneyland.  As she claims the bloodletting in the mideast is the birthpangs of a new, better society, she is sounding as Karon notes, like a Stalinist.  Perhaps she is so rattled by her non-assignment, she just […]

The Monte Carlo Factor: Why Americans Get Fooled

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Monte Carlo is a little retro-risque place along the Mediterrean where people in formal suits and evening gowns gamble.  It is also a statistical formula, which I would not be prepared to analyze at the moment.  But the Monte Carlo Factor is a term I came up with to describe the illusory quality of executive […]