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Elias J Theodoracopoulos wrote:
> 
> >From today's New York Times, op-ed article by Steven Pinker, professor of
> cognitive science at M.I.T.
> 
> "Finally, a better understanding of the mind can lead to setting new
> priorities as to what is taught ... [and] not whether an educated person 
> should know the classics, but whether it is more important to know 
> the classics than elementary economics."
> 
> Quid sentitis Quirites?

Well, having had some extended "up close and personal"
contact with our porcine brethren decades back, I will say
that they are very intelligent, gentle and responsive
animals, especially if that contact begins when they are
young. 

Methinks that it is they who are being insulted in the
present context.

John McMahon
LMC
.