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new initiatives was a distinguishing characteristic of The Freedom Forum Media Studies Center in 1992.”

The letter further informs us that the center maintained a full docket of conferences, meetings and seminars on key media topics. There was a “continuing exploration of the meaning of convergence in the Technology Studies Program.” The center took up the Fairness Factor, “a multifaceted look at the ideals and practicalities of this elusive but vital organizing concept for media-public discourse.” Aaargh!

Pardon me.

A gentleman in Oregon sent me the text of a sign posted at the Cargill Grain Elevator in Portland. The sign defines the absolutes of quality managements: “(1) Quality has to be defined as conformance to requirements, not as goodness. (2) The system for causing quality is prevention, not appraisal.” Exactly so. Fie on goodness, fie! Fie!

This was the lucid information given by an unidentified employer seeking to assist his employees: “People who receive income from self-employment in a year after they first become entitled to benefits may exclude all or any part of this income that is not related to services they performed after they were entitled to benefits.” Thank you, sir.

Many persons in the art world speak fluent Gook. The catalog for a biennial show at the Whitney Mu

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