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...confirm or deny anything," Summers said, standing at his front door of his brick house under a full moon...
...kids going to dismal schools doesn't explain why rich black kids score worse on average than white kids. Stanford psychologist Claude Steele has a theory that might explain it. His research shows that even high-achieving African-American pupils may be distracted by a fear that they will confirm the stereotype that blacks don't do well on intelligence tests. Steele has tested his theory by giving an exam to two mixed-race groups of students. One group was told that the exam was a simple problem-solving exercise; the other was told that their scores would show...
...whose members are in their early 30s and whose most recent album, Kid A, has met with massive critical acclaim and popular success, is up for those two awards as well. If Coldplay can steal just one Brit from Radiohead at the awards ceremony on Feb. 26, it will confirm its claim as the cute Radiohead alternative, instead of just Radiohead Lite...
...really a populist; he is a phony, a fraud." And though this perception is completely wrong in substance, it is enormously damaging and has to be dealt with. He has to regain the moral authority to call people to sacrifice.'...If he fails to adjust quickly, he will confirm the widespread belief that the biggest problem with the Clinton presidency is Clinton himself...
...thing the new numbers do confirm is what is now almost universally acknowledged: that in calling for recounts in specific counties, the Gore camp made a strategic blunder. Apart from fueling public suspicion that he was cherry-picking counties apparently most beneficial to his cause - a tactic that probably fueled already vociferous opposition - it also appears that he had little to gain in terms of votes by narrowing the recounts to so few counties...