[PN] Teachable Moments (26 June 2004)

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* Periodical articles

Colleges push professors into media spotlight
G. Jeffrey MacDonald, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 June 2004
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0625/p11s01-legn.html

Did a government lawyer 'aid and abet' possible war crimes?
[A Cal Berkeley professor, no less - Ed.]
By Julie Hilden, FindLaw Columnist
Special to CNN.com, 9 June 2004 
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/06/08/hilden.torture/index.html

"War is the Mother of Civilization": 
Reflections on the United States and Japan
by Tsurumi Shunsuke, Japan Focus,
translated from the Asahi newspaper of 17 June 2004
http://www.japanfocus.org/122.html

Bush told he is playing into Bin Laden's hands
"Al-Qaida may 'reward' American president with strike 
aimed at keeping him in office, senior intelligence man says ...
Mr Bush is taking the US in exactly the direction Bin Laden 
wants,  towards all-out confrontation with Islam"
[If al-Qaida is against Bush and intelligent, they should refrain from 
supporting his re-election by ostentatious acts like beheading hostages,
nor will any decent people on earth sympathize with their cause - Ed.]
Julian Borger, The Guardian, June 19, 2004
http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,1242638,00.html 

[Best wishes to Mark Warschauer for a happy family as he embarks on
unchartered territory again, whether technologically or personally,
finding teachable moments for the rest of us - Ed.] 

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