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Wednesday, March 1, 1989 The Battalion Page 7
Mitsubishi Aircraft
seeking $9.5 million
in malpractice suit
AUSTIN (AP) — A jury in the
Mitsubishi Aircraft International vs.
Fulbright & Javvorski legal malprac
tice trial began deliberations that are
expected to last several days.
The trial in State District Court
Judge Pete Lowry went to the jury
Monday after 24 clays of testimony.
In its lawsuit, Mitsubishi claims
lawyers acting on behalf of a Ful
bright & Jaworski partner made
changes in an aircraft contract to the
detriment of Mitsubishi.
Since Mitsubishi had been a client
of Fulbright & Jaworski for about 20
years, it asserts that the law firm and
its lawyers had a responsibility to
look out for Mitsubishi's interests.
At the center of the dispute is a
1984 contract to buy a Mitsubishi Di
amond II business jet executed by a
group of Austin businessmen that
included Fulbright & Jaworski part
ner Pike Powers, who is also chair
man of the Austin Chamber of Com
merce.
In closing arguments, Sidney Rav-
kind, representing Mitsubishi, told
jurors “the time is now and the place
is here” to restore decency and
honor to the legal profession.
Two philosophy books
praise liberal education
NEW YORK (AP) — Michael
Oakeshott is 87 years old, lives in a
stone cottage in Dorset, England,
and is, in the minds of many, one of
the century’s great philosophers.
A. Bartlett Giamatti, a teacher of
Italian. English and comparative lit
erature, was president of Yale Uni
versity and is about to become the
commissioner ol baseball in April.
The two men, seemingly so dis
tant in place and circumstance, are
actually close intellectual neighbors.
Each has just published collections
of essays on the idea of the univer
sity.
Both have fashioned elegantly
written defenses of liberal education
and the ideal of the university as a
place of civil conversation; a place
where, as Oakeshott puts it, a stu
dent may “come to seek his intellec
tual fortune” undistracted by the
press of time or outside worries.
The Voice of Liberal Learning:
Michael Oakeshott on Education”
(Yale University Press, S20) was edi
ted by Timothy Fuller, head of the
political science department at (Colo
rado College.
Giamatti’s “A Free and Ordered
Noses lead
people to jobs
in Cognac
COGNAC, France (AP) — Some
good jobs are won by a nose in this
little community of southwestern
France.
Sensitive nostrils can easily nose
out competition here, where nearly
all 23,000 inhabitants are involved in
making and selling cognac. A keen
sense of smell insures success for a
master blender, or “mail re de chais,”
who helps create the well-known
brandy that comes from this area.
As a rule, these jobs are hard to
come by since they at e handed down
from father to son over many gener
ations.
In addition to being able to detect
what creates superb cognac, a master
blender must put to memory the
taste of each of hundreds of cognacs
of various ages and zones. He must
also recall combinations of blends
that can total 30 or more.
For this flair, he is treated in this
community with awe. People whis
per as he walks Ivy, for it is he who is
final arbiter of France’s No. I export
product.
To keep his nose and palate in top
condition, he cannot have garlic,
pepper or other foods or condi
ments that may affect his senses of
smell and taste.
Space: The Real World of the Uni
versity” (W.W Norton, $19.95) con
sists of 23 essays, many of them orig
inally delivered as speeches.
1 he Oakeshott collection rep
resents an opportunity for Ameri
cans to discover a major British phi
losopher, a professor emeritus at the
London Sc hool of Economics.
Taken together, the two collec
tions represent a forceful rebuttal to
“The Closing of the American
Mind,” the best seller by University
of Chicago political scientist Allan
Bloom which charged American
higher education with selling out its
intellectual responsibilities to 1960s
hooliganism.
The introductions in both collec
tions leave no doubt that Oakeshott
and Giamatti are aiming straight at
such Bloom-and-doomsayers. Gia
matti, for one, blames his academic
colleagues for their silence under
siege, and urges them to make their
mission better understood to an in
creasingly impatient public.
“A parent who hungers to know,
for instance, why a child’s college ex
perience costs so much or, worse,
lias seemed so unsatisfactory or lack
ing in connectedness with anything
in the past will have heard very little
from higher education about its is
sues or its problems,” Giamatti
writes.
“Small wonder that Allan Bloom’s
book is a best seller.”
Oakeshott’s essays are more diffi
cult, both intellectually and for their
use of British idiom.
Oakeshott is perhaps best known
for his definitive introduction to
Thomas Hobbes’ “Leviathan.” But
his other works, notably “Experience
and Its Modes,” and “Rationalism in
Politics,” have become bibles for
those who have watched with horror
the rise of social science and techno
cracy on U.S. campuses at the ex
pense of history and the humanities.
Oakeshott describes the university
as an idea, more than a place — a
community where scholars, teachers
and pupils engage each other in
ceaseless skepticism. Universities
are, and must remain, blessedly
“useless” beyond the enjoyment of
learning they offer participants.
He describes the undergraduate
a§ “not a child, not a beginner. He
has already had his schooling else
where, and has learned enough,
morally and intellectually, to take a
chance with himself upon the open
sea . . .”
Oakeshott completely and de
fiantly rejects utilitarian justifica
tions for higher education.
“A university . . . has a place in the
society to which it belongs, but that
place is not the function of contrib
uting to some other kind of activity
in the society but of being itself and
not another thing,” he writes.
Producers work to develop
odd-colored fruits, vegetables
Would black strawberries on your
shortcake whet your appetite? How
about some blue sweet corn? And
Would Peter Piper pick a peck of
purple peppers?
These colored vegetables and oth
ers are available or in the process of
being developed. Would they lure
you to the market, at least to try
some?
The “Black Beauty” strawberry —
known thus far as NY 1593 — is an
advanced selection of strawberry
characterized by a deep purplish-red
color that is almost black.
“I hesitate to recommend it as a
table variety because I don’t think
people are ready to accept strawber
ries that aren’t red,” says John C.
Sanford of Cornell University’s New
kork State Agricultural Experiment
Station in Geneva, N.Y., who is
forking on the berry. He believes
'he berry may be valuable as a natu
ral coloring agent for processed
foods, ice cream, yogurt and frozen
fruit bars.
The black berry is large, attrac
tive, relatively firm and has a pleas
ant flavor, says Sanford, who ranked
it about tlie same in imuilional value
as the traditional red berry.
Blue corn won’t turn your teeth
blue, as some folks might fear, says
Rose Edwards of Albuquerque,
N.M., who founded Blue Corn Con
nection in 1985. He produces blue
corn popcorn, pancake, muffin and
waffle mixes, blue corn chips and
blue corn meal ground coarse, me
dium and fine.
Edwards says people are intrigued
by a blue product and “most of our
products come across a little
sweeter.” He says about 15,000 acres
of blue corn are being farmed pres
ently, largely in the Southwest.
There are quite a few purple vege
tables. Purple cabbages alternated
with green ones in the garden are at
tractive. There are glossy purple
eggplants named Black Magic.
Purple cauliflower actually looks
more like broccoli but with smaller
buds. Varieties include Purple-Head
and Royal Purple. Purple cauliflow
ers generally become green when
cooked.
Seed companies also are offering
blue potatoes, white eggplant, yellow
beets and white potatoes.
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