At 11:42 AM 9/6/2001 -0400, Stephen Black wrote:
A virus? Perhaps it is just the anti-intellectualism zeitgeist gone global.
Or, maybe, Nancy Reagan had a greater influence than we thought.
>First, France, then the US, now India. Is this some new kind of
>virus?
>
> >From the newsletter for the Chronicle of Higher Education 9sept
>6, 2001):
>
>"THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA has agreed to hear a petition
> lodged by academics seeking to quash the government's
> decision to allow universities to award degrees in astrology.
> The move comes amid increasing criticism that the
> government's nationalistic Hindu campaign is damaging higher
> education."
>
>Stephen
>
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