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Tuesday, January 14, 2003

Late to the blog

Busy [418 email!] day today, managing mailing lists in prep for shipping out Natural Logic's "Year in Review" report. The electrons are queued up, and ship Wednesday morning.

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The opposite of schadenfreude

Schadenfreude: glee at the misfortune of others

Mudita: happiness at the good fortune of others (apparently a Buddhist term)

[Adina Levin]
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The New Math. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be explained with a math equation offered by Danny Rubinstein, the Haaretz newspaper's Palestinian affairs expert.... For Israel 10 minus 2 is 8, and for the Palestinians 10 minus 2 is 12. By Thomas L. Friedman. [New York Times: Opinion]

Friedman, ever the optimist, paints not a pretty picture.
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Free speech? No thanks -- We're a university.

[New York Times:] In an unusual showdown over freedom of expression, university officials have refused to allow a fund-raising appeal for the Emma Goldman Papers Project to be mailed because it quoted Goldman on the subjects of suppression of free speech and her opposition to war.

"It seems the administration is mocking freedom of expression by limiting it," Professor Leon Litwack said.

Robert H. Hirst, general editor of the Mark Twain Project, another documentary editing project at Berkeley, [asked] "How many times does this have to happen at Berkeley before they learn?"

Ironically, in one of the quotes (from 1902) Goldman warned that free-speech advocates "shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our next-door neighbors should hear that free-born citizens dare not speak in the open."
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