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...that 1706 fewer people have been hurt in the first eight months of 1986 than in previous comparable periods. A department survey showed that an estimated 35 percent of Massachusetts citizens now use seat belts, compared with 19 percent one year ago. It doesn't take a particularly complex calculus to justify a yes on Question...
There was also some question about Bachrach's character. For years, in some unfathomable Machiavellian calculus, he had pretended to be Jewish...
Peretz's most bizarre accusation is that Bachrach engaged in some "Machiavellian calculus" by pretending to be Jewish for years. During that time, Bachrach has run for the State Senate in a district with a tiny Jewish population. I recall him telling me once how he responded when an Armenian constituent asked him whether he was an Armenian. Bachrach told him that as a Jew whose family had experienced genocide, he thought he understood the Armenian experience a bit more compassionately...
Peretz owes his readers an explanation as to why a Machiavellian politician who lives and runs in a non-Jewish district might pretend he was Jewish when he was not. To say that his Machiavellian calculus is "unfathomable" is either to acknowledge that it was not Machiavellian at all, or that the underlying facts are simply wrong...
...largest departmental course is Math 21a, "Multivariable Calculus," in 12th place, with 257 people registered...