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...ELEMENTARY SCHOOL grammar we all learned that a double negative signifies a positive. The previous statement was not not correct. Correct...
...City Council last night voted into effect a 20 percent increase in the average residential tax rate as part of a package of measures designed to correct Cambridge's unexpected budget shortfall...
These could be the words of almost anyone in the chic anti-PC brigade, circa 1991: an editor of Peninsula, The Salient, or The Crimson, one of your professors, or many students. The complaint that the views of a politically correct minority are dominating and corrupting American universities has become commonplace in recent months...
Gottlieb says that given the small number of jobs, the department is correct in "looking" at women but hiring the best candidate regardless of gender. "With the small number of jobs, it is impossible for [departments] to say they will take equal number of [men and women] and still have the same high standards," says Gottlieb...
Several years ago, I asked Shamir about the Dayan and Kissinger observations. Both were correct, he said, admitting that his nation's obvious security needs and geography combined with an increasingly conservative politics to support his own heartfelt suspicion of the Arabs in Israel's midst. "But there is more," he added calmly. "You see, I just don't believe in trading land for peace. I mean I don't believe...