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laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
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about my dad

I have no idea why this surfaced on the web recently but here it is... it was a long time ago, in a Galaxy (not so) far, far away.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato

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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,454 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>City College announced that Gurewitch had been the victim of a "clerical error," gave him his medal six years late. >>


    right, clerical error. image


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  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
    Wow, that's a story.
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  • secondrepublicsecondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭
    Thankfully times have changed.

    Though it sounds like the professor got his comeuppance.
    "Men who had never shown any ability to make or increase fortunes for themselves abounded in brilliant plans for creating and increasing wealth for the country at large." Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White (1912)
  • harashaharasha Posts: 3,098 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My father graduated CCNY in 1939 and I believe that he also majored in French. Did you father go to Townsend Harris High School?
    By the way, one of his favorite relatives was an uncle by marriage, a gentleman from France.
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  • AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,288 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Thankfully times have changed. >>



    One would hope so!
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  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    Did you father go to Townsend Harris High School?

    No, but I'm not sure which high school he graduated from. I want to say the Bronx High School of Science but the years don't add up.

    I once saw all his academic medals (beauties too) but have no idea where they went.
    One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭


    << <i>Thankfully times have changed. >>


    Have they? Or have the targets merely changed? I don't deny that it has gotten better, but members of unpopular minority groups still have to watch their backs and sometimes fight for their rights. Times ARE changing and progressing, but we ain't all equal yet.
  • secondrepublicsecondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭


    << <i> I don't deny that it has gotten better, but members of unpopular minority groups still have to watch their backs and sometimes fight for their rights. Times ARE changing and progressing, but we ain't all equal yet. >>



    Human nature being what it is, there's never going to be any kind of equality either between individuals or groups. We're not all identical clones, so what does it mean for us to be equal?

    The best you can ask for is equal justice under the law, which our Constitution guarantees.


    Edited to add: I'm not trying to be provocative, and I'm all in favor of treating everyone with respect. But real equality would require sacrificing too many other things -- like freedom -- that are valuable in life.
    "Men who had never shown any ability to make or increase fortunes for themselves abounded in brilliant plans for creating and increasing wealth for the country at large." Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White (1912)
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