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Factually, the speech was correct. While his presentation of these facts may have ruffled some feathers, the way in which critics turned what was ultimately meant to be a thoughtful reflection on the unintended consequences of Americans’ actions into a pro-genocide diatribe is crass and dishonest. Add to that the fact that these critics just spoke up now, a full seven months after the speech was given, and things start to seem extra fishy. Is this anything resembling legitimate criticism, or just the result of a scholarly bandwagon-effect...
...past, time was allotted for students to fill out evaluation forms in class. This system rarely captured the views of less-motivated students with poor attendance, cutting out a significant and important minority among respondents. Online CUE evaluations have the potential to correct for this problem by allowing everyone access to the forms, not just a self-selected group of lecture-goers who are engaged in the class. But, lacking the immediacy of actually being filled out in class, they also have the potential to decrease participation overall...
...variety of kid-inspired products--motherhood, apparently, being the mother of invention. Cynthia Drasler, of Phoenix, Ariz., came up with Organic Excellence hair- and skin-care products because her daughter's skin was too sensitive for most products already on the market. Narmin Parpia designed Potty Scotty, an anatomically correct male doll that pees water, after struggling to find toilet-training aids for her two sons. Julie Dix was inspired to create Taggies, a line of tactile blankets and books, when she noticed that her toddler son often preferred playing with the tags on his toys to the toys themselves...
...article on President Summers’ speech about the Native American experience (“Sept. Remarks Resurface,” News, Apr. 20) goes to show that liberal academia will stop at nothing to see Summers tossed out of office. Everything he said was factually correct, as even his opponents acknowledge. There were no epiteths hurled. While the transcript of remarks cannot tell us about delivery style, there appears nothing in this speech which would seem offensive. One must conclude that the only offense Summers committed was straying off of the politically correct ideological reservation these professors inhabit...
Still, Levitt does his own number crunching, unlike Gladwell. And he forms some different conclusions. While Blink argues that our subconscious judgments are often correct, Levitt finds human error everywhere. We aren't very good at judging risk, assessing causality and avoiding temptation, he learns. But he relishes studying us anyway. --By Amanda Ripley