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...editor of a newsletter for the Los Angeles chapter of Mensa, the organization for people with high IQs, was fired today for publishing articles that called for killing homeless, elderly and mentally ill Americans. Nikki Frey, the editor of "Lament," had maintained that she "would not print anything I thought was truly harmful and insensitive," but the local group's board didn't buy it. No wonder: The newsletter's November issue, publicized more widely in the Los Angeles Times this week, urged that "mentally defective" people be "humanely dispatched" and mourned that Adolf Hitler spoiled a good debate over...
Should the homeless, retarded and mentally-infirm elderly be exterminated to make room for smart people? Should the horrors of the Holocaust be ignored to rethink the old master race idea? Such an "intellectual cleansing" campaign was proposed in a recent newsletter for a Los Angeles chapter of Mensa, the organization for high-IQ people who should know better. Many of the chapter's 2,000 members have been up in arms since the November issue of Lament appeared, the Los Angeles Times reported today. Authored by two Mensa writers, one article asserts that Adolf Hitler's greatest crime...
...Sagan's optimistic vision, however, rather than any foreboding of apocalypse, that shines through every chapter of this handsomely illustrated ^ book. Anticipating human exploration of Mars, for example, Sagan foresees a Jeep-like vehicle carrying astronauts on the lookout "for rocks from ages past, signs of ancient cataclysms, clues to climate change, strange chemistries, fossils or -- most exciting and most unlikely -- something alive. Their discoveries are televised back to Earth at the speed of light. Snuggled up in bed with the kids, you explore the ancient riverbeds of Mars...
...final clubs. Though exclusive and generally distasteful, at least these clubs could claim to be an indigenous Harvard phenomenon. Other students seeking a private space could help to explain the relatively recent advent of national fraternities and sororities. The appearance of women's Kappa Alpha Theta and Delta Gamma chapters in the last two years was accompanied by a chapter of Lambda Gamma Lambda, a predominantly Hispanic fraternity...
This then is the task of the second chapter of "The Boys of St. Vincent." Part II of the film takes place 15 years later and centers upon the relationship of the private histories, memories and experiences of the individuals--both victims and perpetrators--to this past they have left behind. The court has decided to prosecute the priests of St. Vincent now for the sexual abuse of 15 years past, which now becomes reconstructed as a public legal case. In this sense, the second part of the film is narratively continuous with the first part, yet it also clearly...