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...Murray is not so benign; he is a crafty, venal man. He has been able to cling to some scientific legitimacy by downplaying many of the false assumptions in his work, emphasizing its factual elements, and ignoring substantive scientific rebuke. For example, in his Institute of Politics speech, Murray largely avoided the subject of race, and did not answer the stinging criticism of Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen J. Gould. He has claimed that The Bell Curve is not about race, but Adolf Hitler could have made that argument about Mein Kampf. Major portions of the book deal with race...
...Time correspondent in the living room of his two-story white-brick home in an affluent northern suburb of Indianapolis. He eagerly outlined the themes of his campaign. Insisting that he felt vigorous despite treatment for blood clots last December and the removal of his appendix because of a benign tumor a month later, Quayle delighted in the belief that his message of family values was gaining currency. ``There is still a residue of the old stereotype of me that was formed in the first few weeks of the 1988 campaign, but in due course it will be erased...
...year, after suffering shortness of breath, he spent eight days in the hospital where he was treated with blood thinners for a blood clot, which had developed in his right leg and traveled to his lungs. In January doctors removed his appendix after a CAT scan revealed a rare benign tumor...
...downsized many federal programs, he failed to exempt the states from picking up the slack. Result: big federal-budget cuts and big increases in state taxes. This time both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue were on board, but even as Gingrich looked on and Clinton talked about moving beyond the ``benign mistrust'' that he said had characterized federal-state relations, some of the Governors still felt benignly mistrustful...
Whereas some Americans simply retreat behind bigger door locks, others are becoming increasingly active, joining street patrols, reforming schools and seeking alternative health care. Not every corrective impulse is completely benign. Many Americans have stocked up on guns and walled in their communities. The question that remains is whether America's notion of personal responsibility will prove to be selfish and inward-looking, or expansive and community-minded...