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A familiar place that Emerson shows up in reference to education: quotable, inpirational. The problem, as ever, he remains a quotation. But how does this college, in its hiring, in its curriculum, in its English department, take Emerson seriously? What would that, serious taking, entail--given Emerson's concern, say, for the problem of books?

It's good to see that Kristof continues to bring attention to the issue of trafficking girls into brothels. He is reframing the conversation with
the language of "abolitionism," and bringing the term to the mainstream public.

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Let his death not be in vain.

Anybody besides me find it odd that the markets have had virtually zero up-days since the supposed "bailout" passed 6 weeks ago? Anybody besides me want to see Henry Paulson hang for his despicible "bait and switch move?" Why did our "representatives" give these fatcats Seven Hundred Billion Dollars (TWO TRILLION after interest since it all came from DEBT) without a single clause stipulating that it has to actually be used to prevent foreclosures rather than line the pockets of executives. I suppose we Americans deserve what we get for not ending the tyranny appropriately earlier on, but now they have the audacity to ask for another 25 billion to "rescue" the Big 3 automakers? It is time we saw this masquerade for what it is: A last ditch effort by a corrupt and -without hyperbole- tyrannical regime to pay themselves one last time before a legitimate and democratically elected leader enters the oval office.