Word: authorly
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...question voiced in the most recent Radcliffe Quarterly, which features a discussion on race at Harvard-Radcliffe. The panelists included author Abigail Thernstrom, who feels that blacks, and liberals in general, are entirely too pessimistic about the issue of race in America. She argues that statistics on the progress of blacks prove that the "we still have a long ways to go" attitude is unfounded. Things have changed, and in a few years, with blacks being educated at higher levels and in greater numbers, this will be even more evident than it already is. According to her, there aren...
...Valentines and Veritas" by Lisa Brennan-Jobs (News, Feb. 13): Besides the fact that no Caucasians and hardly any men were cited in the article (implying that interracial relationships are a minority women's issue), the author failed to modify an obviously mistaken quotation...
...chance, says Robert Hagstrom, author of The Warren Buffett Way and manager of the Focus Trust, a stock fund that tries to mimic Buffett's style. "You shouldn't take this as a cue to be seduced into commodities, and don't misunderstand this as a big move out of stocks," Hagstrom says. Indeed, the silver and T-bonds, even after recent run-ups in price, account for less than 10% of Berkshire's $34 billion portfolio...
...find Amis undertaking such a seemingly conventional plot, it is also amusing, because it affords the British author an opportunity to play off quintessentially American myths about cops and robbers and have a little fun with American English while he's at it. Amis satisfyingly uses "badge" as a verb, as in, "I badged my way through the tunnel of uniforms around the front door," and he offers this memorable description of Hoolihan's work among the dead: "I've seen them all," she says. "Jumpers, stumpers, dumpers, dunkers, bleeders, floaters, poppers, bursters...I have seen bodies left dead...
Matsui, a 20-year veteran of Washington, D.C.,and co-author of the Japanese-American RedressBill of 1987, is one of only three Asian Americansin the House of Representatives and only one offive in Congress, according to his presssecretary...