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...response to The Bell Curve's suggestion that Blacks are inherently less intelligent than whites, Higgin-botham said, "There is a profound lesson we can learn. We know that if we use our brain power, rather than just our anger, we can we can respond to their diatribes...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Day of Protest Greets 'Bell Curve' Author | 2/15/1995 | See Source »

...HIGGIN'S CREDIT, however, he results some of the tough-guy cliches he spouts forth in his pompously awful weekly column about magazines in the Boston Globe. He gives himself the perfect tough-guy target--a wimpy prison bureaucrat who mouths the tired liberal dogma about "rehabilitation," Oh. Higgins destroys the wimp alright, but just when we expect the sermon about how the only thing dese guys understands is a kick in the ass. Higgins surprises us. And the worldly warden says, "my way wasn't very successful either' And he adds...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Tough Guys | 4/30/1982 | See Source »

Harvard super fan JOHN HIGGIN '20, was on hand for Wednesday's lacrosse contest in Providence. A few years ago the Harvard Club of Boston elected Higgin "Harvard Fan of the Year." The freshmen had themselves quite a game in Harvard's defeat of Brown earlier this week. STEVE BARTEN FELDER scored five goals for the second time this year, and fellow Yardlings PAUL GARAVANTE and WILL SOLLEE both had their first tallies of the season... The Brown game was a homecoming of sorts for head Coach BOB SCALISE. Scalise attended Brown as an undergraduate, played lacrosse there, and then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Many Marathoners Relax; Who Are Laxmen 'Lunch and Lurch?' | 4/24/1982 | See Source »

When his supervisor suggested he stock up on waterbed patches, Greg Higgins, manager of Store 24, thought the man was crazy. But then Higgins reflected and realized that "when someone needs a waterbed patch, he really needs it," so he invested in a small shelf's worth. Sure enough, a couple of months later a woman came into the store at 2 a.m., looked around and exclaimed, "Oh, my God--you have them!" To Higgin's stupefaction, she bought two packages of patches. "How often does she expect the thing to get punctured?" he remembers wondering...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Playing On People's Paranoia | 12/2/1981 | See Source »

...Great Island, one of the last undiscovered parts of the National Seashore, in Wellfleet. It is on the inside of the Cape in Wellfleet Harbor. The tides and winds have gradually formed a sand spit which now connects the Island to the town. It was the location of Higgin's Tavern, in which famous pirate Black Bellamy hung out. It is now uninhabited...

Author: By Dewitt C. Jones, | Title: Seaside Follies | 3/23/1978 | See Source »

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