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...them flourish in popular culture) are precisely such mongerers and such floggers. Their chilling thesis is that the similarity between the black past in America and the black present in America is greater than the difference. For the past hundred years or so, the Jews have also had to contend with such a thesis about their own modernity. If they are more secure than they have ever been, in America and (for different reasons) in Israel, it is because they repudiated that thesis, not without bitter internecine battle, and because they made themselves ready in their own self-interest...
Admittedly, not even the most rabid sociobiologists contend that babies pop out of the womb with a thirst for bank robbing. Rather, they say, a constellation of influences leads to a life of crime, among them poverty, maleness and a trait known as "impulsivity," presumably caused by bad brain chemistry, caused in turn by bad genes. What, you may ask, is impulsivity? The standard answer tends to involve people who can't control their emotions or who get into bar fights. A study conducted in Finland found that men so characterized tend to be deficient in the brain hormone serotonin...
Some tax experts contend that if Whitewater assumed the mortgage loan on the property, then only the corporation, not its individual owners, could deduct any subsequent interest payments. In some cases, that tax consequence could be avoided through a device called a "mirror loan" or a "back-to-back loan"; Lindsey says he thinks the Clintons used such an arrangement but is not sure. Partner McDougal, however, says he never heard of any such thing. Experts consulted by TIME assert that if there were such a loan arrangement, it should have left a paper trail on the Clintons' tax returns...
...16th annual women's Beanpot Tournament was different than Beanpots past: Boston University recently dropped women's hockey to club-sport status, leaving only Harvard, Northeastern, and Boston College to contend for the premier Boston-area women's hockey trophy...
Others even contend the course's lack ofintensity helps them grasp the material...