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p> BACK TO SKOAL br> Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Binge College : /p> p>I am a 45-year-old ex-investment banker returning to school to get my teaching certification. I can assure you that vacuous is a generous description of my fellow students. There is virtually no intellectual curiosity at all, and the lack of general knowledge is astounding. You would be interested to know that Martin Luther King was president during the Vietnam War. And that the only democracy in the Middle East is France! I don't think that the drinking is as prevalent as when I was in school in 1980, but ignorance is surely on the rise. br> -- Pete Toal /p>

This interesting column, I picked up from Drudgereport.com.

Retired after 33 years as an economist at University of Texas at Arlington, I can relate to your comments but could not express them so well as you do.

p>Your off-topic introduction summarizing the Oil scandal at the UN is also straight to the point and good to read. br> -- John B. McCall

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