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Layzer said that most adherents to the heredity view have "some political ax to grind," citing their support of tougher immigration laws and other "exclusionary legislation." He said that "these people believe the I.Q.-heredity correlation is high. Nothing will shake that belief. They believe those numbers...
...lack of interest in the problems of working women when it runs articles extolling the virtues of volunteerism--It can benefit You. Although the author's explanation of this viewpoint is offensive, after reading a few pages of Equal Times it is hardly unexpected: "Our society would probably grind to a halt if women demanded minimum wage for everything they now volunteer for. Maybe you don't think that would be such a horrible occurrence. But while you and I argue the matter, people who have been elected to public office are making decisions that have a profound effect...
...newscasters journalists or entertainers? The denizens of the print world, squinting over their reconditioned typewriters at the six-figure (and lately even seven-figure) superstars of TV news, are not the most impartial judges of the subject. Let a member of the judiciary, with no ax to grind, review the question...
...stands the film leaves us as it leaves unruffable Veronique at summer's end, vaguely amused, hardly flustered, and ready to forget and move back to the grind...
...swapping whoppers and case histories, the members of the troupe couple and uncouple in scenes that manage to be both erotic and clinically detached. Jealousies arise; a small epidemic of paranoia breaks out as opening night approaches. Linking all this motion and emotion is the production itself-the constant grind of rehearsals, the inexorable piling up of bits and pieces into something with the potential for magic...