[PN] Shortage of Arabic and other needed foreign languages (19 June 2004)

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* Periodical articles

After Sputnik, It Was Russian; After 9/11, Should It Be Arabic?
By Samuel G. Freedman
New York Times, 16 June 2004 
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/16/education/16education.html
[Letter to the Editor about it by Prof. Benjamin Rifkin, 17 June 2004:] 
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/17/opinion/L17SPUT.html

Former diplomats call for Bush ouster
"Foreign policy damages nation"
Paul Courson, CNN, 16 June 2004 
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/16/bush.criticism/index.html

Pak[istan] 'rewarded' for helping Osama
CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA, The Times of India, 17 June 2004 
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow/744139.cms

A perfect storm of issue films
"'Fahrenheit 9/11' is at the forefront of a slew of political documentaries"
By David Sterritt,The Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2004 
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0618/p13s02-almo.html

The End of Oil
"Oil, besides being a whole lot of political trouble, is 
approaching its production peak. What to do?" 
[Tax big cars, conserve, research alternatives, protect public health; many things could be done if only there were the political will - Ed. ]
Paul Roberts, interviewed By Nonna Gorilovskaya, 8 June 2004
http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/2004/05/paul_rob_qa.html

Collegially, Steve McCarty
Professor, Osaka Jogakuin College, Japan
Online library: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/epublist.html
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