But you should control your excitement. That increase will be from 3.7 percent to 4.5 percent according to The Washington Post , just what it was until the last fiscal year when it dropped to 3.7. Instead of announcing each of the exonerations when it became clear the Clintons were innocent, he waited until the day he testified before the House Judiciary Committee to break the news. If he had announced each of the exonerations at the actual time it became clear the Clintons were innocent, each finding would have rated a front page story in even the most Clinton-hating paper. That was the question posed at a conference I attended not long ago.
Conferences can be deadly.
But this one made me think. For starters, universities must free themselves from domination by departmental and research concerns to focus on teaching. The major issues of the new century should be the subject of interdisciplinary courses that examine problems like global warming and the cruel havoc markets can wreak on the world economy. Twentieth century history should be emphasized as essential background for dealing with the issues of the 21st. It should be a required course and should be taught by a teacher or teams of teachers who can make comprehensible the political, economic, and scientific elements of today's problems.