<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=3>In a message dated 4/21/2003 9:49:58 PM Pacific Daylight Time, the-squeeze@pulpculture.org writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">If theory's political utility is this dubious, why did the theorists spend <BR>
so much time talking about current events? Catharine R. Stimpson, a <BR>
panelist and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York <BR>
University, offered one, well, theory. "This particular group of <BR>
intellectuals," she said, "has a terror of being politically irrelevant." <BR>
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So anyone wanna make bets on how this bunch will try to reinvent themselves????<BR>
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DoreneC</FONT></HTML>