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...because the Dartmouth faithful cannot see Corriero’s face. If they could, their clapping would not stop so abruptly when it happens. But for the moment, the crowd is still clapping, still hopeful, because it doesn’t realize that Nicole Corriero is now at point-blank range from Lane...
...responded, “It isn’t, nor it does it have to be, but since a major portion of our history went unaccounted on the basis of a group of people’s color, it is only right to fill in the blank white space with the black that should have inhabited it a while ago.” This person’s question did not surprise me. It just confirmed my belief that the history of black people has too often been seen as separate from the history of our nation, and, subsequently, skin...
...comedian AMY SEDARIS' real face is difficult to recall, it's probably because she doesn't wear it much on TV. Instead, the pixieish actress, right, often looks like this: her character Jerri Blank from the cable cult hit, and now feature film, Strangers with Candy. "She's so nasty!" says Sedaris, who wiggles into a fat suit to play the ex-hooker, ex-junkie and all-around loser. Now Jerri has become the face of the new antifur campaign by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). "Previous ads addressed the animal cruelty behind fur, but people...
...among the top 5 percent of test-takers on standardized assessments. Summers said the evidence for his speculative hypothesis that biological differences may partially account for this gender gap comes instead from scholars cited in Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker’s bestselling 2002 book The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature...
...rather be in the dentist's chair. "We fell short of thinking what people think and addressing people's pressing needs," he confessed, describing the failures of his own government. "These shortcomings and inadequacies have undermined [our] credibility." Near the middle of the 100-minute speech, the teleprompter went blank and Tung had to fumble for his glasses to read from his notes, looking very much like a leader who has lost...