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Clarke's outrageous statements came in the context of a letter attacking those who would defend The Bell Curve, a controversial new book coauthored by the late Harvard professor Richard Herrnstein that suggests (among other things) that race and intellectual ability are somehow genetically linked. Rather than attack the questionable research and logic underlying The Bell Curve, however, Clarke resorted to bigotry, pure and simple, to reach the opposite conclusion...
League representatives canvassed the Science Center yesterday, distributing flyers which read in bold print: "Stop Operation Rescuel Stop anti-abortion terrorists! Defend abortion...
Sometimes the script is just plain cheesy. Alderaan is depicted as a hippie commune where hunting is forbidden unless ecologically appropriate. For goodness sake, no matter what kind of a threat the Empire is, the people of Alderaan would never dream of taking up arms to defend themselves. Is it a wonder, with this PC weirdness, that Leia joined the rebel alliance? They don't do her character any favors either, but at least the script makes clear all the ambiguities between her and Luke and Han which were so baffling to me as a child...
...write a novel to answer how a lawyer feels when he has to defend someone who he knows is guilty," Dershowitz said in an interview Friday to promote his first novel, The Advocate's Devil...
...response to those who defend The Bell Curve ("Defending The Bell Curve," Opinion, Oct. 24, 1994), please use the following theories and observations to assist you in your search for truth regarding the genetic differences between Blacks and whites...