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...country but perhaps from Washington, exercising its powers to regulate interstate commerce. At a parley on Mackinac Island, Mich., last month, representatives from the Great Lakes states and two Canadian provinces (Ontario and Quebec) listened to some telling statistics from University of Michigan Civil Engineering Professor Jonathan Bulkeley. He pointed out that even a relatively small diversion from the Great Lakes, say 10,000 cu. ft. per sec.-about the volume of water sought by Montana from Lake Superior-would lower water levels enough throughout the interlocking system to cause the loss of $35 million in navigation revenue...
...Wall Street Journal has also been flooded with letters. Only articles on abortion and gun-control have stirred more controversy, according to Bulkeley and an editor in the Journal's New York office...
...Bulkeley, however, said "I stand by my story." "My portrayal of the class was accurate." Although some students quoted in that story claim Bulkeley took their comments out of context, even Raiffa agreed that no one was actually misquoted...
...colleagues in the B-School and around the country have been "very supportive." So, too, have his students. Raiffa has a file of letters from former students, including some of those quoted in the Journal article, declaring their support for him and for his class, and their disapproval of Bulkeley's article...
...this point at least, Bulkeley and Raiffa are in complete agreement...