America's academic establishment is so solidly liberal that Naderites easily outnumber Republicans.

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The academic establishment is happy to accept mammoth checks from alumni and make these endowment underwriters trustees or regents, but only if they serve as complacent rubber stamps.

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Elsewhere in the Chinese academic establishment, it's a puzzle.

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What does this mean for the undergraduate, academic establishment?

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It was what it appeared to be: a centrist and establishment-minded president nominating a centrist and establishment-minded academic to an important diplomatic position where he would implement centrist and establishment-minded policy.

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Juwono Sudarsono, the outspoken Indonesian academic who is well-known for fearlessly criticizing the establishment, now says a military man will be needed when President Suharto eventually steps down.

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Nowhere is the blind complacency of the establishment more evident than in its bovine attitude toward academic degrees: as long as my child goes to the right schools, upward mobility will continue.

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