Word: accountants
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...Fences premiered on Broadway and Toni Morrison published her masterpiece, Beloved. Both would receive Pulitzer Prizes. In that same year, PBS aired Henry Hampton's Eyes on the Prize, the six-part documentary on the civil rights era, and Cornell scholar Martin Bernal published Black Athena, a highly controversial account of African sources of classical Greek civilization. Meanwhile, Spike Lee and Wynton Marsalis were establishing themselves as masters of film and jazz...
This bizarre notion takes no account of mountains of evidence to the contrary. But, like a slick lawyer, Breggin has answers for every argument. Researchers have, for example, observed distinctive physical features in the brains of people with schizophrenia. A study of identical twins found that one portion of the brain was 15% smaller in the person with schizophrenia than in the normal sibling. Breggin says the difference could be the result of brain damage caused by the drugs given to control the disease. Of course, it is difficult to test his hypothesis because that would require studying people with...
Coming back and being back are different, of course. Harlem's depression is still staggering. Single female-headed households account for 63% of all households with children. Forty-two percent of the population has an income below the poverty line. Black men living in Harlem are less likely to reach age 65 than men in Bangladesh. The murder rate for males nationally is 10.2 per 100,000 people; in Harlem it's over 100. The area's infant-mortality rate is 60% higher than that of New York City as a whole and can be attributed largely to alcohol...
...Globe shows that while 52% of voters think Kennedy is doing an excellent or above-average job, 49% believe it is time to give someone else a chance. The contest is a statistical dead heat, with Kennedy running 48% to Romney's 46% -- in a state where Republicans account for only 13% of registered voters...
Preston, the final panelist, offered a personal account of her life. She grew up in a public-housing project in Brooklyn, she said, and still lives in the same neighborhood...