Word: racists
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...probe innate abilities, and if achievement tests rate classroom learning, aptitude tests assay something in between--developed abilities. Developed abilities are those nurtured through schoolwork, reading, doing crosswords, soaking up the arts, debating politics, whatever. These aren't inborn traits but honed competencies. Whereas early psychometricians, many of them racist, propagated what Lemann calls the dipstick theory--the idea that a test score is like a mark on a dipstick showing the raw amount of intelligence in your mental oil tank--the field outgrew that simplistic notion at least a generation ago. "I don't think anyone believes...
Black and minority leaders across the country have openly condemned the game, calling it a racist and offensive perpetrator of negative stereotypes...
...board and a former officer in both the Black Students Association and the Association of Black Harvard Women said she wrote to Chang, but only received an automatic e-mail response stating that his game was not “Blackopoly,” and that he was not racist...
...acted in revenge for the killing of her brother and cousin by Israeli soldiers in June. She had apparently snuck into Israel through a section of the Green Line as yet unfenced. An Islamic Jihad leader in Gaza, Abdullah Shami, said the strike already showed the failure of the "racist isolation security fence." But the bombing is likely to spur Prime Minister Ariel Sharon into speeding up construction of the barrier, despite opposition from Washington...
...ADMITTED. By RUSH LIMBAUGH, 52, conservative commentator; his addiction to prescription painkillers, for which he said he was checking into a rehab facility; on his nationally syndicated radio program. Limbaugh, who recently resigned from ESPN after making statements derided by some as racist, said his addiction began "some years ago" after spinal surgery. Two weeks ago, his name was linked to an investigation into an illegal drug ring in Florida. Limbaugh was said to be a possible buyer, but he has not been charged with any crime...