Word: belled
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...Bell Curve was published with much fanfare. In this work, Charles Murray '65 and the late Richard J. Herrnstein argued that intelligence is inheritable and black and Latinos come up short on every test. Since one author has a degree from Harvard, and the other was a professor at the University, their words and ideas have been taken by many Americans as gospel. Likewise, Agassiz, Morton and a number of other 19th-century scholars connected to prestigious universities and foundations operating from racist perspectives saturated the public with pseudoscientific proof that African-Americans were inferior. The 1990s is a repeat...
...taking over the neoliberal weekly in October 1991, Sullivan has kept it roiling with controversy, running such cover stories as a 1994 attack on Clinton's health-care plan by Betsy McCaughey (which many credit with turning the political tide against the plan) and a lengthy excerpt from The Bell Curve, the book by Charles Murray and Richard J. Herrnstein, linking IQ with race. Last week, after 4 1/2 years at the helm, Sullivan resigned as editor and found himself at the center of another controversy. The question: Did he quit, or was he fired...
...YORK: In the second-largest corporate merger in history, two more Baby Bells have agreed to join in a deal that would create the nation's second-largest phone company. Bell Atlantic and Nynex announced the $23 billion deal Monday, three weeks after SBC Communications and Pacific Telesis unveiled their merger plans. Both mergers were given the green light after President Clinton signed a sweeping deregulation of the telecommunications industry into law two months ago. "In the aftermath of deregulation, these two large companies are trying to manouver in an exceptional communication and media world," says TIME's Michael Krantz...
...Stanford, where the debate centered around a decision to open a Taco Bell on campus, the student government got its inspiration from Harvard...
PepsiCo, which owns Taco Bell and Pizza Hut as well as Pepsi-Cola, has been widely criticized for its investments in Burma, a military dictatorship with a questionable human rights record...