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To: epicure who wrote (4510)	11/15/2003 2:40:44 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) of 20773

That speech brings back memories of Fletcher (I am class of '86). The school always showcased top-notch speakers from all points of view. I remember Newt Gingrich giving a half-decent history lecture there in 1985 (his profession before he became a rampant ideologue). The two professors mentioned are also a study in contrasts. Leila Fawaz gave a terrific Middle East politics seminar from a totally unbiased point of view; I may have mentioned the story once how she let two students wrangle for two hours on the Palestinian issue "to get it out of their system" so we could move onto more interesting analysis. Richard Shultz comes from the school's rightwing security studies program (one of my concentrations there). In fact, one of my classmates from that program is a senior staff guy at PNAC now. The point of this ramble is that the Fletcher School could bring a top-flight speaker with one point of view, have those views challenged in an open forum and have everyone go home maybe more enlightened, or at least having benefited from a real debate instead of a mudslinging name-calling hate-talk-radio-type slugfest.

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