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Sunday, January 23, 2005

THOSE OF US IN THE THICK OF THE FSU CHIROPRACTIC CONTROVERSY

…know what this journalist means, and know that he’s right [see many January UD posts, below, and archived]. His mixed-up metaphors, however, would confuse anyone else...

But asking wimpy trustees to take point in shooting down what the Legislature already had approved and financed is typical of the kind of political calculus from which the Board of Governors is supposed to insulate the universities.”