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On the other side, spirits were actually buoyant, despite the disproportion of casualties among the Palestinians. "It's not like people are gloomy and sad," observes Abu-Amr. "They are proud and happy that the Palestinians are finally standing up. It's an act of empowerment, even if it comes...
The few conservatives on the faculty at Harvard might serve as an example of the sort of diversity that Milton and Mill had in mind. They are a mere sprinkling in the dull mass of liberals, in ridiculous disproportion to their number in the general population. True diversity comes from...
Perhaps the most engaging and surprising works are Feininger's photographs, mostly from the 1930's. They show off the artist's supreme sense of composition and perspective in a way that makes even his doodles (some on display) worth another look. That holds for at least two of his...
A team at the National Cancer Institute's Laboratory of Biochemistry reported in the journal Science that families of 76 gay men included a much higher proportion of homosexual male relatives than found in the general population. Intriguingly, almost all the disproportion was on the mother's side of the...
Wait a minute, I can hear my neighbors say, we're not as slow at math as the Asian Americans like to think. There's still a glaring disproportion there. African Americans are only 12% of the population as a whole, at least according to the census count, yet they...