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...mind, this is a pragmatic judgment, not a moral one. Says he: "Cultures are not 'superior' or 'inferior." They are better or worse adapted to a particular set of circumstances." Because slavery so distorted the black experience in the U.S., Sowell suggests blacks could measure their progress as though they were recently arrived immigrants. Even so, he is contemptuous of blacks who feel they should be given special treatment because of the lingering effects of slavery; when one compares "the average standard of living in Africa to the average standard of living of black Americans, the grotesque...
...last week, Botha backed off. He dismissed the possibility of letting non-whites vote. Indeed, he categorically rejected any role in national decision making by the country's 19.8 million blacks, who make up 71.5% of South Africa's population. He indicated that any change in the inferior status of the country's nonwhite minorities (Indians, Chinese, mixed race) would be deferred until 1983 at the earliest. Botha also lashed out at liberal white South Africans who criticize his government's apartheid policies, implicitly branding them as agitators. Said he: "There are Satans walking about...
...also in development for 18 years, during which the Army had to get along with inferior tanks. It costs $2.5 million per vehicle today, a price so high that Reagan had to add almost $1 billion to his budget so the Army could buy 1,289 over the next two years. (Estimated cost of the best Soviet tanks, the T-64 and T72: $700,000 each.) The M1's advanced turbine engine gulps fuel at the staggering rate of 3 gal. per mile. Its armor (60.3 tons) makes it so bulky that it cannot be carried aboard any cargo plane...
Feminists argue that the clever and strong women in folk and fairy tales are almost always hags, witches or deranged stepmothers. The heroines, says Author Ethel Johnston Phelps, "are good, obedient, meek, submissive to authority and naturally inferior to the heroes...
After Hearns and Leonard together entered the bottom of the welterweight rankings, their paths quickly separated. Leonard had no trouble finding inferior but higher-ranked (you know what a joke the ratings are) fighters to beat on. At the same time, no manager in his right mind would put his fighter against the Hit Man from Detroit...