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...SHARPTON, black activist who ran for President in 2004, on Joe Biden's calling fellow 2008 presidential hopeful Barack Obama "the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." Biden apologized...
...then came Joe Biden. Announcing his run for President, he praised his Senate colleague and presidential rival Barack Obama as "articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy" and declared that this was a first for African-American presidential candidates. Generally, the first thing that happens when someone commits a boner like this is that everybody else--political rivals, journalists, news junkies, even his or her staff--has a good laugh. Then all the players declare how saddened they are or how angry they are and demand an apology...
...existing suspicion--certainty, in fact--about Biden is not that he is a racist, or even close, but that he is pathologically loquacious. And he babbles. That means his unintended comments about black presidential candidates deserve less weight, not more. But it would be nice if just occasionally we could shrug off stupid things that people say accidentally...
...rest of the country to send you money or go to jail, it does wonders for your economy," says northern Virginia writer and noted urban thinker Joel Garreau. Stephen Fuller, who runs the Center for Regional Analysis at George Mason University in Fairfax, puts it more gently: "It's nice to have a rich uncle...
...hurt if they got an education in the process. Economic logic might trump my own, but at least my thinking would make for good sport (and sports stories). In this era when much of college athletics has become more spectacle than sport, it’s nice to be confident that I’ll be able to watch the next crop of spectacular Harvard athletes hone their skills through four years of trials, and not just on the playing fields. Take, for instance, the case of Clifton Dawson, the Crimson’s most-hyped big-sport athlete...