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...Fair. According to the union, white male white collar support staff members make, on average, $14,324. Black women in the same types of jobs make $12,603, despite an average of 1.4 years greater experience at Yale. The university's own figures show no such discrimination, but also fool no one at the university or elsewhere. Fair, after all, played a key role in the original development of the statistical techniques Yale says he isn't using correctly...

Author: By D. JOSEPH Menn, | Title: Ubermensch Morality | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...brought bitter second thoughts among the liberal intelligentsia, best summed up by the Washington Post's Haynes Johnson, normally an evenhanded fellow. He suggested in a column that Reagan's overwhelming support proved Abraham Lincoln wrong, that in this age of packaged candidates it was possible to fool all of the people all the time, or at least enough of the time to put a mountebank like Reagan in the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: When the Elite Loses Touch | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...revolves around a double courtship. The two daughters of the rich Baptista, Katherina and Bianca, are up for grabs; but the beautiful Bianca cannot marry until her sharp-tongued older sister is suitably bethrothed. The three suitors for Bianca's hand, Lucentio, Gremio and Hortensio, stake the gold-digging fool Petruchio into marrying Katherina and clearing the path to wed Bianca. While Petruchio engages in verbal duels with Kate, Lucentio and Hortensio disguise themselves and woo Bianca in secret...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: The Taming of the Soft Shoe? | 11/8/1984 | See Source »

...retrospect, Reagan should have refused to debate. "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and leave no doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 5, 1984 | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...Pittsburgh Pirates cap and a matching outfit of sneakers, yellow Bermuda shorts, cheap black imitation kimono, and Hawaiian-print shirt. Caudle stands out against the simple costumes of the rest of the cast. And with an astute sense of comic timing and expression, he serves as effective fool and foil for the other characters, and as commentator for the audience on the events taking place around...

Author: By Stuart A. Anfang, | Title: Just a Dream? | 10/25/1984 | See Source »

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