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...most recent book, “Real Education,” Charles Murray, a co-author of the controversial bestseller “The Bell Curve,” points out that nearly all of the most notable members of elite professions (which typically pay higher than blue-collar jobs) have IQ levels of 120 or above...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: Speaking Truth To Test Scores | 10/7/2008 | See Source »

...Garons N.Y., 212-604-9200) 2 Loro Piana baby cashmere scarf ($775; loropiana.com 3 Alfredo Hberli for Alias Taormina chair in Kvadrat fabric ($940; aliasusa.com 4 J. Crew tweed fedora hat ($68; jcrew.com 5 Etro nylon and tweed men's bag ($1,400; etro.it) 6 Alexander Olch blue and gray herringbone tie ($160; Bergdorf Goodman Men's, 212-753-7300) 7 Harrys of London Mansion slippers ($650; San Giorgio Shoes for Men, 702-770-3599) 8 Ralph Lauren Home Balines standard sham ($175) and Baslow Tattersal European sham ($350; ralphlaurenhome.com

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Pastoral | 10/6/2008 | See Source »

...While sitting on the bench, the Crazies would taunt him, chanting, “in-Hale, ex-Hale.” Creative and devilish. So devilish.Then, in 1984, Maryland’s Herman Veal was accused of sexually assaulting a fellow student. In the game at Cameron Indoor, the Blue Devil women collectively threw 1000 pairs of panties onto the court while yelling a collection of cheers I can’t print—although I’d love to. And Duke isn’t even a big school. It’s a private college known...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Are We Really All That Crazy? | 10/6/2008 | See Source »

...like a mad bus driver into a breathless verbal tour of his hometown, beginning with Union Street and a mom-and-pop restaurant, accelerating through all the stops—the current administration, taxes, Iraq, education, health care—taking a slight detour to note his (working-class, blue-collar) predilection for Home Depot, and wheezing back into the station with a promise of change from Obama. To viewers at home, Biden’s brief but intimate portrait seemed to say much more than any dense policy proposal...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: In a Nutshell | 10/6/2008 | See Source »

...road to Galveston Island. The first odd note is the number of blown out billboards and signs. The gold has gone from the Golden Arches, the toll-free phone number on the billboard for the class action law firm has been torn and tossed to the wind. Then the blue tarps begin to appear, stretched taut over the rooftops of strip malls and apartment buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Storm-Ravaged Galveston, Echoes of New Orleans | 10/6/2008 | See Source »

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