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...from New Orleans, La., in particular, and the South in general. I don't have a southern accent. I don't wear overalls. I'm not a conservative. The Confederate flag doesn't mean much to me. But I still feel like a Southerner, and it began to bother me that I was willing to let the people around me see me not as I saw myself, but only as reflections of themselves. Perhaps that's all that's left of the old, supposedly gracious and civilized South--an ability to sense people and adapt to them--but I wanted...
...does the Kremlin bother with what amounts to its own fantastic Watergate coverup? Aside from protecting Brezhnev, the outrageous distortions of what really happened to Nixon are obviously tailored to fit the official conspiratorial view of the U.S. system. Says one Western diplomat in Moscow: "It jibes with what are probably their basic beliefs about how America operates. It also fits the deep-rooted Slavic feeling about plots." Adds a Scandinavian official posted in the Soviet capital: "No one wants to raise the question of popular pressure bringing down a government that lies. Imagine what that could mean here...
...heavy-handedness of the PGA bureaucracy. "All the black players out here owe everything to Charlie--he used to have to eat in the kitchen and change his shoes with the caddies," Hill had said. "But I've gotten to the point where I don't even bother to complain about all the shit out there anymore. Nothing ever gets changed. The PGA just does things the way they want to. The players' association is about as powerful as four mosquitoes on an elephant. The commissioner can overrule anything that's decided upon. I don't even vote anymore, that...
...Times--perhaps because of assumptions it makes about its readers or perhaps out of sloppiness--didn't bother to recognize the possibility that people might not see the memorandum for the hack job it is. It never placed the profile in the context of a contrived and systematic attempt to discredit the Ellsberg defense and only in a news story three pages away did it quote anyone as questioning the profile's accuracy. The Times presumed that everyone has realized just how demented Richard Nixon and his government are, and that's not a safe assumption for anyone, let alone...
...purpose of this argument is to justify given social arrangements. If you assume that the differences in races is a function of the differences in genes and that I.Q. is inherited, then you do not have to bother with improvement," Lewontin said...