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From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James J. O'Donnell)
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Subject: preference for primary sources
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0109301434070.12670-100000@spot.colorado.edu> from "KOPFF E CHRISTIAN" at Sep 30, 2001 03:33:18 pm
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KOPFF E CHRISTIAN wrote:
> 
> In case anyone missed the significance of this posting, it was a kindly
> warning to academics to avoid reading or discussing the Times piece in the
> leisure time afforded them by not reading Who Killed Homer? and The Bell
> Curve and everything else they are not reading. 
> 

Sorry, I took it to be a recommendation to read what Don Kagan said,
forcefully, rather than what the NYTimes, framing current discussion
against familiar slogans, potted him down to.  Kagan is at:

http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=16126

Jim O'Donnell
Classics, U. of Penn
jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu

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