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...this whimsical hobbling of normal syntax? In a Postscript, our author accounts for his mission: "Offhand, with hindsight, I can think of many factors bubbling about in my brain, but I ought to admit right away that its origin was totally haphazard, touch and go, a flip of a coin. It all got out of hand with a companion calling my bluff (I said I could do it, this companion said I could...
...payroll taxes rise along with the basic wage, most experts say the contemplated hike to $5 an hour could cost between 40,000 and 100,000 jobs. ``The consensus view has big problems with Krueger's results and methodology,'' says Texas A&M labor economist Finis Welch. ``Alan ought to consider the old saw: If you drop an apple and it rises, question your experiment before concluding that the laws of gravity have been repealed...
...general public. Though Gingrich supports the Mexico plan, its dwindling chances of success leave him indisposed to force it on the newcomers. ``If we can't find a way to satisfy their beliefs, then they shouldn't vote for it,'' Gingrich told Time. ``I don't think we ought to go to members and say, `Why don't you learn to sell out? You've already been here a month...
Academics ought to have a longer shelf life than pop stars. So maybe Madonna wasn't such a swell role model for Camille Paglia, a humanities professor at Philadelphia's University of the Arts. Sexual Personae, a rambunctious survey of gender identities published in 1990, made Paglia into feminism's Material Girl. In a whiny time in America that sanctified women as victims, she celebrated woman's erotic and emotional majesty. Just like that, she was the hot intellectual starlet...
...need not choose between The Bell Curve and The History and Geography of Human Genes. Both books reach the same conclusion: races are remarkably similar, there being more difference among individuals within a race than among races. Therefore, the policy implications that ought to flow from both books is the same: justice should be color blind. Stop treating each race as if all its members were identical. That, specifically, is the burden of what The Bell Curve's authors ask. Wayne P. Hughes Jr. Pacific Grove, California