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We all want the same things in life: Trouble comes; we all want them on our
terms. I often exercise my bias by just ignoring this or that. Might that be
the case at the Temple University? And then again, I often exercise that
same bias by developing outrageous attacks on human events to suit my own
perception of how things should be.
For example: I proclaim synchronized swimming as a non-Olympic sport. What
idiot let it into the arena? It’s splendid entertainment. But it’s not a
Olympic sport. Why? Because you can’t judge a “wet smile” objectively.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Heinegg" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 8:45 AM
Subject: Textbooks
> When my wife went back to Temple University to complete her college
> degree, she was the only student in her History class who knew enough
> about the Vietnam War to discuss it in class. Apparently, the state
> textbook commissions find the subject distasteful. In a senior class on
> History which included History majors, she was the only one who knew about
> My Lai, any of the famous photos from the war, or even that we lost--
> because she had read the newspapers of the time.
> Paul
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