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...welcome the renewed discussion of the proposal as well as the approach that the panel discussion represented. We hope the next such event will take the logical step of including even those individuals adamantly opposed to the proposal--and the whole concept of ethnic studies. One rational debate would do more to illuminate the issue than any protests...
...successor in the White House has pledged 25,000 troops to help keep the peace in Bosnia. When you proclaimed the right to self-determination, it sounded noble and progressive, although not everyone cheered. Your own Secretary of State, Robert Lansing (you never did like him) predicted that the concept would lead to unfulfillable expectations and large-scale violence. "What a calamity," he wrote, "that the phrase was ever uttered...
...galaxies and clusters of galaxies we now see could have evolved in a low-mass universe. There could also be, as some astrophysicists believe, a "cosmological constant," a sort of universal antigravity force that would make the universe look younger than it really is. Albert Einstein invented that concept as part of general relativity, then renounced it as "the greatest blunder of my life." It's still considered a long shot, but, says Princeton astrophysicist Ed Turner, "people are now going to start looking harder at cosmological constants again...
...know by now that Harvard is "on the information superhighway." But what does this really mean? In fact, the concept is more than just a political catch-phrase...
Here's what he writes: "The concept of 'greatness' is itself historically and socially contingent. There are no objective criteria, but only ongoing relativistic processes that rest upon constant fluctuation in a series of class, race and gender factors. As a result, your puerile attempt to discuss 'the great comedies' is doomed to failure before it even begins...