greetings all:

talent and attrition has won out: it seems you all (21) have made the cut.

onward
jdd

...and I'll be around monday after 10.30 am to sign add/drops...

A reminder that first movie screening, Capra's Why We Fight, is tomorrow, 5-7 pm, Watson Institute, Joukowsky Forum. Let me know if you are unable to attend.

JDD

AND THE WINNER IS....OLIVER SHULZE.

(AND THERE IS A MORAL TO THIS STORY, THAT WE SHALL DISCUSS IN CLASS)

I assume since this was hard to find you dont want us to post it on the blog at first so everyone can have a chance to find it, and this was REALLY hard to find. I will post my enterance exam in a few hours.

[PROFS]
profs n. Professional Office System. A menu-based system that provides support for office personnel such as White House staff, using IBM mainframes. Acclaimed for its diary mechanisms, and accepted as one way to introduce computers to those who don't know any better. Not acclaimed for its flexibility. PROFS featured in the international news in 1987, and revealed a subtle class distinction within the ranks of the Republican Administration in the USA. It seems that Hall, the secretary interviewed at length during the Iran-Contra hearings, called certain shredded documents PROFS notes as do IBMers who use the system. However, North, MacFarlane, and other professional staff used the term PROF notes. v. To send a piece of electronic mail, using PROFS. PROFS me a one-liner on that. A PROFS one-liner has up to one line of content, and from seven to seventeen lines of boiler plate.

http://www.212.net/business/jargonp.htm

it seems our notification function through email of upcoming events - ie, screening of capra why we fight - did not kick in.
could you let me know if you receive notification of this blog post through your email.

thanks
jdd

As prep for screening of 'Why We Fight' next week, visit Al-Ahram, the leading english newspaper in the Middle East:

Moore or less morality
Michael Moore's documentary Fahrenheit 911 has broken US box-office records during its opening week. But rolling back the tide of imperial politics will require more than simply piquing moral sensibilities, writes James Der Derian*

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US foreign policy has always been a struggle between morality and power, and when politics escalates into war the first casualty is -- as California Senator Hiram Johnson famously remarked in 1917 -- the truth. With the casualty list growing every day in the war against terror, the opening of Michael Moore's documentary, Fahrenheit 911, has assumed huge importance in this homegrown struggle between morality, truth and power.

Promoted in the film trailer as the "true story that will make your temperature rise", duly attacked by Bill O'Reilly as "Leni Riefenstahl Third Reich propaganda", and challenged by the right-wing group Citizens United as a violation of federal election laws, Fahrenheit 911, all about the news, has become the news. The polarised reaction, I believe, comes from Moore's uncanny ability to evince powerful moral and emotional responses from images. Like the Rodney King video (or the sequel with Stanley Miller), the looped shot of the twin towers falling, Bin Laden's home movies, the Abu Ghraib digital snapshots and the Richard Berg snuff film, Fahrenheit 911 plays to a thoroughly modern sensibility -- politicians can, and often do, lie but images cannot. Guilt by association with images replaces argumentation by evidence.

Numerous print reports of earlier instances of dissembling, self-deception and outright lies by the US government, from claims about Iraqi ties to Al-Qaeda to the presence of weapons of mass destruction and the likelihood of a swift post-war transition to peace and democracy, surface, sink and bubble-up from a variety of newsholes. But the image seizes our attention. Why? (see http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/print/2004/697/cu5.htm for the rest)

PS Most likely times for jarecki presentation next Thursday is 12-1 pm, joukowsky forum, with screeing of WWF on Wednesday during usual class times. confirmation will follow...
JDD