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Otherwise, it was a slow, quiet summer. For weeks, the top non-Sox story was the ongoing plagiarism scandal involving Boston University dean Joachim Maitre, whose commencement speech included 15 paragraphs of a local film critic's essay about declining societal standards. Big deal...
...point the finger. Within a six-day span this month, the nation's two leading dailies, the New York Times and the Washington Post, confessed to plagiarizing stories from rival papers and disciplined the guilty reporters, while the journalism school at Boston University replaced its dean, H. Joachim Maitre, after he lifted much of his commencement speech from an obscure journal...
When Dean H. Joachim Maitre delivered his commencement speech at Boston University's College of Communication in May, he chose as his theme the decline of morality in American culture. He cited several sexually explicit and violent scenes in the movie The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover and said, "The politically correct, properly liberal notion is -- liberal in the sense of having no standards -- is that we should never dig deeper to consider whether a given work is true...
...Hans-Joachim Maaz, in a newly published book titled Der Gefuhlsstau (The Emotional Bottleneck), asserts that the chief obstacle to normalization of the east is psychological, not political or economic. "All of these people were formed by repressive relationships almost from the moment they were born," says Maaz, head of the department of psychotherapy at Deaconess Hospital in Halle, a dingy industrial city near Leipzig. "The authority of the father was replaced by the authority of teachers and then by the authority of the state." The result is a society of spiraling violence. "The lid is off," says Maaz...
Ultimately, Christian critics of the millenarians can argue that they are guilty of two errors. One is emulating Abbot Joachim's egotistic heresy: falsely assuming that the age in which they live is unique. The other mistake -- an undertone in some of the Armageddon literature but overt in much of the computerized End Days babbling -- is to interpret events in the gulf with eschatological glee, as if the real message were "Hey, fellas, our troubles are almost over." No one has the right to that assumption. History unfurls as God's secret, wrote the French novelist Leon Bloy...