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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 <p>By <ent type='PERSON'>RICHARD</ent> M. EBELING</p>
 
-<p>You may recall seeing the December 24, 1990, issue of <ent type='ORG'>Newsweek</ent>
+<p>You may recall seeing the December 24, 1990, issue of Newsweek
 on the newsstands. The cover had a granite wall with raised
 lettering, spelling out the words, "Thought Police." If you
 read the article, you learned about something called
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ financial fine to expulsion from the school. For faculty, it
 can mean grounds for dismissal, denial of tenure or lack of
 promotion.</p>
 
-<p>From the <ent type='ORG'>Newsweek</ent> article, the innocent and uninformed reader
+<p>From the Newsweek article, the innocent and uninformed reader
 would have gained the impression that this new form of thought
 police was merely the temporary, if irritating, excesses of a
 few campus administrators, faculty members and students trying
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ The dominant focus in liberal arts education on <ent type='NORP'>Western</ent>
 culture and tradition will now be modified. Other cultures,
 other world philosophies, other conceptions of man and
 community will be presented on an equal footing with the
-<ent type='NORP'>European</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> contributions to the human heritage.</p>
+European and <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> contributions to the human heritage.</p>
 
-<p>And what about the "thought policemen"? <ent type='ORG'>Newsweek</ent> ended the
+<p>And what about the "thought policemen"? Newsweek ended the
 topic with an article by a young man who had been a thought
 policeman at one of these campuses. He assured the readers
 that he and others were merely trying to raise the
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ What if students were not interested in attending the
 "reeducation" programs on campus? The author said, "Attendance
 wasn't mandatory, but did we know who wouldn't show? You bet."</p>
 
-<p>Contrary to the general impression that <ent type='ORG'>Newsweek</ent> conveyed, the
+<p>Contrary to the general impression that Newsweek conveyed, the
 movement for "politically correct thinking" is potentially one
 of the most dangerous intellectual currents in <ent type='NORP'>American</ent>
 academia today. Some of the recent books that explain what its
@@ -160,8 +160,8 @@ the battle needs to be fought and won.</p>
 <p>But the answer is not to capture the state universities for
 "the Right." Rather the answer is to defeat the cultural
 leftists by denying them the source of their power: the
-socialist educational system. <ent type='ORG'>State</ent> universities dominate
-higher education in the United <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>s. And what government
+socialist educational system. State universities dominate
+higher education in <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States. And what government
 does not control directly, it indirectly controls and
 manipulates through the regulations that come with government
 grants and scholarships to nominally private schools. (My
@@ -193,15 +193,15 @@ ideas, I personally have little doubt about which of the
 intellectual alternatives would tend to capture the largest
 free-market share.</p>
 
-<p>Professor <ent type='PERSON'>Ebeling</ent> is the <ent type='PERSON'>Ludwig von</ent> Mises Professor of
+<p>Professor Ebeling is the <ent type='PERSON'>Ludwig von</ent> Mises Professor of
 Economics at <ent type='ORG'>Hillsdale College</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Hillsdale</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Michigan</ent>, and also
 serves as vice-president of academic affairs for <ent type='ORG'>The Future</ent> of
-Freedom <ent type='ORG'>Foundation</ent>, P.O. Box 9752, <ent type='GPE'>Denver</ent>, CO 80209.</p>
+Freedom Foundation, P.O. Box 9752, <ent type='GPE'>Denver</ent>, CO 80209.</p>
 
 <p>------------------------------------------------------------
 From the April 1991 issue of <ent type='ORG'>FREEDOM DAILY</ent>,
-Copyright (c) 1991, <ent type='ORG'>The Future</ent> of Freedom <ent type='ORG'>Foundation</ent>,
+Copyright (c) 1991, <ent type='ORG'>The Future</ent> of Freedom Foundation,
 PO Box 9752, <ent type='GPE'>Denver</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Colorado</ent> 80209, 303-777-3588.
 Permission granted to reprint; please give appropriate credit
-and send one copy of reprinted material to the <ent type='ORG'>Foundation</ent>.
+and send one copy of reprinted material to the Foundation.
 </p></xml>