| The global spotlight shifts to Pittsburgh this week for the financial crisis summit of the 20 nations that ??matter ? the most economically. But other doings this week matter, too. In California, for instance, university faculty will be staging a walkout to protest the defunding that's degrading what used to be the world's finest system of public higher ed.The protestors include the famed linguist George Lakoff |
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Margaret Bassett passed away August 21, 2011. She was a treasured member of the Opednews.com editorial team for four years.
Margaret Bassett--OEN editor--is an 89-year old, currently living in senior housing, with a lifelong interest in political philosophy. Bachelors from State University of Iowa (1944) and Masters from Roosevelt University (1975) help to unravel important requirements for modern communication. Early introduction to computer science (1966) trumps them. It's payback time. She's been "entitled" so long she hopes to find some good coming off the keyboard into the lives of those who come after her.
