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Saturday, February 12, 2005

LOOK BACK IN ANGER

The spectacularly incompetent head of Hamilton College's benighted Kirkland Project has resigned, "under duress," in her words. "What the project needs now is someone more adept at the kind of political and media fight that the current climate requires. Therefore, it is in the interests of the mission of the project itself and for no other reason that I am yielding to requests that I resign," she said.


Ward Churchill too is fond of this "current climate" business... by which UD supposes they mean bad things are happening to them because we live in a reactionary ice age ... But how do they account for the fact that the last twenty or thirty years have been very good to them?