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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...
...book, co-authored by late Harvard Professor Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles F. Murray '65, has triggered controversy on campus over the last few weeks...
...Bell Curve, a recent book by Charles Murray '65 and the late Harvard professor Richard J. Herrnstein which argues that whites as a group are inherently smarter than Blacks: "I haven't read the book yet. But, we who are egalitarians and believe in equality should not be afraid of science; truth will show that all men and women are created equally and with equal potential...
...poor themselves, in a stunning inversion of Scripture, have taken the place of the demons and Pharisees. Well-fed intellectuals trip over one another in their eagerness to castigate the down-and-out as muggers, sluts, and even -- in the case of Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray in their new book, The Bell Curve -- retards. No political candidate dare step up to a lectern without promising to execute, imprison and snatch alms from the hands of the "underclass...
...thirty-plus years, you look at the whole of the thirty years," Maher said. "Most of us tend to evaluate or react to each other for what we see as the long-haul contribution the person is making to the scientific field."Photo Courtesy the Harvard News OfficeRICHARD J. HERRNSTEIN...