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To: JohnM who wrote (21981)	3/23/2002 12:52:51 AM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (2) of 281500

John I read it again. I think it's more the gadfly thing than demonizing. 'Gadfly' isn't the right word because he's not very good humoured - 'horsefly' is more like it. A little chunk of flesh here, a little bit there. He definitely thinks there are mid east specialists who aren't very good and he even scarified an English type. But does he actually have a thing for American academics? The nature of the world is that most things are mediocre. I remember sitting in non American classes and thinking 'this guy isn't up to snuff.' Looking back, with more experience and background I think I was right in most cases.... Of course, I thought a couple were great and now I don't think so, etc., etc. But mostly they were ordinary and in the areas I specialized in, I can say fairly, they were commuters: they got on the same train every day and didn't even look out the windows much - the ones who weren't commuters scared the hell out of the others. It appears Kramer thinks a fundamental error has been made in how American mid east studies are pursued. I wonder if he's right, or, at least, right enough.

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