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Sowell's positions are anathema to many blacks, and he has few supporters among black scholars. Cornell Political Economist Manning Marable, for instance, dismisses him as an "ebony version of Milton Friedman." Indeed, Sowell studied under Nobel Prizewinner Friedman at Chicago, and many of his positions bear a free-market stamp: forced school busing is insulting and destructive to blacks as well as whites. Affirmative action and quotas, with their accompanying threat of antidiscrimination suits by those who do not win promotions, lead employers to hire only the safest risks-the most talented and credentialed members of minority groups...
...curse. For about half of all women of child-bearing age, menstruation is a monthly misery that causes intense physical and mental discomfort. In the U.S. alone, menstrual problems result in the loss of 140 million hours of work a year. Menstrual pain, says Pathologist Laurence Demers of the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pa., "probably is the most common cause for absence of women from the work force...
...featured a former March of Dimes poster child smiling in her wheel-chair as evidence that afflicted children can lead happy lives, Judge Ralph Ferguson ordered doctors to operate. As a result, Elin can expect to live at least six to eight years. Said the couple's attorney, Milton Kelner: "They are loving, caring parents. Is it not the right of the parents to decide the course of their child, or is it the courts...
...Milton E. Block Cherry Hill...
...year-old man was the best judge of what he should take." It seemed a fitting notion in a day when all knowledge was supposedly contained in the infamous five-foot shelf of classics, which began with the Bible and worked its way through the Hellenic myths and Shakespeare, Milton and Faust. Robert Benchley sat in the Harvard Club of Boston after his graduation determined to make his way through the whole 60 inches. He confessed it was nearly impossible, and concluded it was probably better just to read the beginning...