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The truth is that Brill's reputation as an attack dog--cherished above all by Brill himself--is not completely deserved.
He has an enthusiastic supporter in the conservative Daily Telegraph of London, which said in an editorial Thursday that he deserved "the thanks of democrats throughout the world" for his stand on the decommissioning issue.
There are a lot of better things to put energy into than chopping down the work of a writer who worked at the trade honorably and industriously for 50-odd years without getting any of the recognition many of us believe she richly deserved.
Those of us who work on international monetary theory have been wondering for a decade when Robert Mundell would get his richly deserved Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
In Why We Can't Wait , published in 1963 as the movement to dismantle segregation reached its peak, King observed that many white supporters of civil rights "recoil in horror" from suggestions that blacks deserved not merely colorblind equality but "compensatory consideration."