Fred Krupp '75, the big cheese at the thoroughly compromised Environmental Defense Fund (he's <fred_krupp at edf.org> if you want to give him a hard time) spoke at a recent alumni gathring "with eloquence and self-deprecating humor" about EDF's work with McDonald's. "Fred recalled a Yale seminar in which engineering professor Charles Walker observed, 'If we just lower our voices, these environmental problems are solvable.'" Yes, history is full of tales of progress through whispers. If only the anti-colonial and civil rights movements had had the benefits of the Krupp-Walker doctrine.
New York Times reporter James Brooke '77 writes to inform his classmates that he's just been appointed as the newspaper of record's Canada correspondent. But because of onerous Canadian tax laws, he will be covering the Great White North from Denver; the Times closed its Ottawa bureau. Since most foreign reporting in the Times consists of recycling local press reports and U.S. embassy propaganda, who needs to be there and talk to and live among actual Canadians?
Doug