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...couldn’t have aced the Wonderlic. He had left a question blank...
Although Larry Summers has given the media plenty of ammunition over the course of his career, journalists who covered him in Washington say he was never willing to give the press a blank check. He would challenge reporters on a regular basis, veteran journalists recall, often questioning their conclusions and making a point of explaining his side of the story...
...then, as it is now, was that my failure in math was due to a pre-emptive fear of failure. My guess is that many young women are similarly uncomfortable with the aggressive risk-taking associated with math and the physical sciences, and are afraid to fill in that blank space with the wrong answer. In my opinion, this is because, for American girls, the value of keeping up an appearance of perfection is often ingrained very early...
...anyone about Marcus Garvey, and you’re likely to get a blank stare, or that same stare preceded by something about “Back to Africa.” Arguably the most overlooked and misunderstood black leader of the past century, Garvey led the second-largest organized mass movement of people of African ancestry—exceeded only by the slave trade. He was the father of the Pan-African movement and the grandfather of the civil rights and African nationalist movements of the 1950s and 1960s and the black self-determination efforts of the 1970s. Without...
...complain about. And in “Oy Veritas!” he will complain, but not without purpose, but to shock, provoke and amuse you. For those whose internal monologue keeps asking: “So what’s the deal with (blank) at Harvard?” This column is for you. At the same time, it’s also for those who ask: How can we make it better? Check it out on alternate Thursdays...