U.S. Rep. Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, on Tuesday criticized NBC for showing the movie "Shindler's List," a film about the Holocaust, because it contained nudity and violence and some of the characters used language that offended him. In response, Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, R-New York, said Coburn's equating of "nudity of Holocaust victims in concentration camps with any sexual connotation is outrageous and offensive."If the congressman from Oklahoma found the scenes of nudity in Schindler's List titillating, there is something seriously wrong in his psychological makeup. Maybe someone should show him pictures from the National Geographic , or a medical textbook ...
Where we part company is when Fialka points to an economist's study that says ten years after graduation most foreign science graduates are no longer in the United States. Whether that's true or not, the U.S. is not getting a raw deal by educating these foreign students. Students have usually gone through 16 years of education in their home countries before attending graduate school. If they spend an average of four years in graduate school and have careers spanning 40 years, then they've gotten a fifth of their education in America and might be expected to work a fifth of those 40 years--eight years--here. Seems fair to me.
In fact, by attracting the best and the brightest, even if only for ten years, to its graduate schools, America benefits from human resources it would otherwise have to compete with from day one.
