Writings by Arnold Beichman
Arnold Beichman's Archives
(Through August, 2005)
by Arnold Beichman
06/12/2006
Weekly Standard, Volume 011, Issue 37
This Article was published just a few days before 17 Canadians and Al-Qaeda
sympathizers, were arrested on charges of building a massive bomb
to use against major Canadian targets
THE CANADIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE SERVICE has just issued this warning:
There is an increasing threat from what Canada's CIA calls "home-grown terrorists"
living in communities across Canada. And presumably awaiting orders.
The warning came from Jack Hooper, CSIS deputy director of operations, in May 29
testimony before a Canadian Senate defense committee. He told the committee that,
since 2001, some 20,000 immigrants from the Afghanistan/Pakistan region have
entered Canada. And said Hooper in what passes for Canadian understatement:
"We're in a position to vet one-tenth of those. That may be inadequate."
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Arnold Beichman:
The Congress of Cultural Freedom
Review of Herman Wouk
Soviet Threat
departure, the quality of teaching and the will to learn have diminished and the
sense of the university as an adventure in ideas has gone, perhaps forever.
To say this is not the futile expression of some Mr. Chips nostalgia, a yearning for
a genteel golden age that never was, nor is it the idealization of a fleeting moment in
the history of American higher education. Rather it is to commemorate a grave loss
and thereby to express the hope, once shared by many academics, for a return
from the present Dark Ages to that era when the university, sanctified by the ''great
chain of being'' tradition, was not only a place where one could prepare for a
learned profession but also a place where one was expected to get a broad
education, meaning a sense of what the world is about; a place where a sense of
values was imparted. click to see whole article
John F. Kennedy (1962) and Vice-
President Hubert Humphrey (c. 1964)
Algeria (1957)
original Vespa
