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...goal of my current research is to extract the generic qualities of analytical thinking--a skill which can then be applied to any of hundreds of intellectual tasks. By the way, ministering analytical skills appear to be the best way of coping with the fact that even at your age, alas, you have lopped out in learning speed. (Parents and grandparents in the audience may be interested in some very attractive new findings. They show that for people over 85, removing time limits on tests allows those who are healthy to do very well. A lot of intellectual power remains...
...right to bring suit does not guarantee a trial victory, but Hishon will now be able to extract evidence from King & Spalding on how and why it decided against her. The firm, whose most prominent partner is former Attorney General Griffin Bell and whose client list is topped by Coca Cola, appears to be an almost retrograde archetype of the white, male-dominated, large urban law office. It is described by anonymous former associates as a "Southern gentleman's club," and last year it reportedly suggested that its female summer associates enter an office wet-T-shirt contest (bathing...
...that women don't receive equal respect. Pornography is a double insult; it denigrates women and has fun doing it. But turning to the law to endorse a stiff-necked Victorian worship of womanhood's worth is hardly an answer. It implies that there is a moral right to extract respect from the disrespectful. A widespread perception of feminine inferiority infringes on the real equality of the sexes, but this perception must be changed by conversion, not coercion...
...arguments against trade unions are long and familiar; every economics textbook since Samuelson's has insisted that unions restrict the labor supply and extract from management higher wages for a blue collar elite, at the expense of jobs for thousands of others. And ever since organized labor became an integral part of the American economy, experts have called unions inefficient and unproductive because they give too many jobs to unions members who perform superfluous functions. Laymen, too, dislike unions simply for the corruption they feel many unions leaders display...
Blacks know that if Jackson goes to the Democratic Convention with enough delegates, he can extract important concessions from the party. Many blacks do not trust white Democrats, no matter how liberal their voting records, to push their interests. Indeed, with the party preoccupied with cutting the federal deficit, issues of vital importance to blacks-affirmative action, teen-age unemployment, the black underclass-are hardly discussed by white candidates. Says Max Palevsky, a liberal activist in Los Angeles: "The Democrats have lost their way and become a not too articulate reflection of the Republicans. Instead of sweeping these issues under...