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...know that The Bell Curve is just a long-winded version of what an awful lot of white people actually believe. Take a look, for example, at a survey reported by the National Opinion Research Center in 1991, which found a majority of whites asserting that minorities are lazier, more violence-prone and less intelligent than whites. Even among the politically correct, the standard praise word for a minority person is "articulate,'' as if to say, "Isn't it amazing how well he can speak...
...inspires the off-season trophy hunters to employ off-season guides. "We've busted folks who have hired guides and said, 'I'll give you $5,000 every time I pull the trigger,' " says Grosz. Other clients, lazier or more timid, are content to order up contract killings. The current black-market price for one ready-to-mount bighorn sheep can go as high as $10,000. Grizzly bears fetch $25,000. Eagles and some of the rarer butterflies bring $1,000 apiece. Meanwhile, despite the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, the principal...
There. I could've looked up its age. But as co-editor of the younger-sibling mag, I am lazier and more irresponsible than a news reporter. Someone writing for The Crimson would look up the magazine's age and get its class year and middle initial. I let stuff like that slide in the pages of the mag because I know the Crimson proofer will pick up after...
...impossible to detect where one Duchesnay's effort ends and the other's begins. They insist that their musical, athletic and competitive talents are equally matched. "We split the stunts up fifty-fifty," says Isabelle. Concurs Paul: "There isn't one who's lazier than the other." Having spent almost every day of their lives together since adolescence, they claim to be totally in synch. "I know exactly how he feels on the ice every minute of every day," Isabelle states. Remarkably, the two say they have never considered splitting up the team. "Even if we lose," says Isabelle...
Shaffer speculates that students have become more interested in knowing the menu before arriving at the dining hall because they "are lazier today." He adds, "If they are studying in the library, they want to know whether it is worth it to leave the books...