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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (30228)	2/18/2004 5:38:55 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793698

In case you wondered how really "Left" it is among the Duke Academics, check out this letter to the Editor of their paper. Letters to the Editor: Political parties display similarities February 17, 2004 While my take on the word freedom may be slightly different than those of the Duke Conservative Union (slavishly following the commands of Sauron--oops! I mean David Horowitz--does put a slightly different slant on the term) I do appreciate their efforts to call to our attention the lack of diversity in party affiliation among some Duke faculty. While there are important differences, we must keep in mind that the Democrats and Republicans show negligible divergence on major domestic and foreign policy issues Clinton's government, after all, bombed Iraq repeatedly while George W. Bush just did it all at once. Neither has released data on the numbers of Iraqis killed; social services, welfare, support for education and the environment were gutted under both regimes and no high ranking member of either has been held responsible for personal benefits derived from ties to the military cybernetic complex, etc.... Given this, I also want to know, where is the diversity? Where are the Greens, Labour, the Christian Democrats, the Socialists, the Communists, the Workers Party, the Black Panthers, Puerto Rican independistas, etc...? Where is the truly wide range of partisan organizing that, across the globe, offers diversity in imagining options for the future? Diane Nelson Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology chronicle.duke.edu