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Egyptians Order Pizza for Wisconsin Protesters

In an act of intercontinental solidarity, an Egyptian has ordered a  
pizza for Wisconsin protesters, reports  
Politico<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49888.html#ixzz1EXkqdxcu>.  
The call from Africa is just one of many streaming into the Madison,  
Wisc., pizza parlor Ian's from all over the world. So far, people from  
12 countries and 38 states have rung up looking to help get free pizza  
to the Wisconsin protesters clustered in the Capitol. On Saturday,  
Ian's distributed more than 1,000 free slices and sent 300 pizzas to  
the Capitol. The trend continued on Sunday, as staff member fielded  
calls from as far away as Turkey, Korea, Finland, China, and  
Australia. The trend began when a mother of a University of Wisconsin  
student called in offering to donate $200 to feed the people occupying  
the Capitol. The pizza chain's postings on Twitter and Facebook soon  
led to so many donations that they had to shut down on Saturday night.

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Politico<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49888.html#ixzz1EXkqdxcu> |  
Monday, Feb. 21, 2011


Quoting "Petruso, Karl" <[log in to unmask]>:

> The Dissent essay is one of the most memorable book reviews I have  
> ever read. I curate a very small collection of reviews and review  
> essays that take one's breath away, and this one is jockeying for  
> the top position on that list.
> The only book by Jacoby I have read is his Last Intellectuals (first  
> edition, many years ago). If I recall correctly, Jacoby came to  
> university teaching after a long career as a public  
> intellectual-that is, he laments in that book the disappearance of  
> public intellectuals in America, and soon afterward disappears his  
> ownself (i.e., is absorbed) into university teaching-in California,  
> no less. One thinks of Jacob Neusner leaving the Institute for  
> Advanced Study for the University of South Florida. Surf's up!
> Does this give new meaning to the term irony? More ironic than  
> holding the Moishe Gonzalez Folding Chair in Critical Theory at UCLA?
> Help me out here.
> --kmp
>
>
> On 2/21/11 9:18 AM, "Agger, Ben" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Interesting and hilarious exchange between Russell Jacoby and  
> Michael Burawoy on a book that Jacoby recently reviewed in the pages  
> of Dissent.  You can find a link to the original review if you click  
> on the URL, below
>
>
> http://www.dissentmagazine.org/online.php?id=445
>
>
> ben
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>