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...offensive publicity stunts to express political opposition to affirmative action and similar policies (“Whites-Only Rule at B.U. Is Booed,” news, Nov. 22) is nothing new. In 2004, an “affirmative action bake sale” held at Columbia demonstrated a similarly disturbing trend of parody and ignorance, rather than informed debate, about important issues related to race relations in higher education. While events such as these do, of course, provoke dialogue (at Columbia, it contributed to the founding of our Office of Multicultural Affairs), they also trivialize matters that are deserving...
...rule in Kaohsiung comes with some baggage. Last year migrant Thai workers on a Kaohsiung mass transit project rioted over poor working conditions; a subsequent investigation led to the indictment of DPP city officials and a former presidential aide on charges of accepting bribes. Chen Chu, Taiwan's labor minister at the time, was not linked to the corruption scandal, but she resigned to take responsibility for the treatment of the Thai workers. And the allegations of corruption against those close to the President are causing the DPP even bigger headaches. "The day of the [First Lady's] indictment...
...women are much less at ease with Rockefeller’s presence at such an emotionally charged event. It becomes clear that Rockefeller is an outsider, intruding and unwanted, over-ambitious to a fault, and insensitive to the calamity.There are exceptions, of course, but they serve to prove the rule. Among the few memorable wartime photographs is one not of the war, but of three young warriors observing a battle occurring below their hillside post.Two of the onlookers, each carrying bows and arrows, wrap their arms around themselves, so that a hand rests on each shoulder. Their backs are turned...
...crime - has since recanted his claim that the other men were involved and now insists that he acted alone. The whole argument may seem like a stretch - it certainly did and does to the victim's family - but on Wednesday a Virginia judge accepted enough of it to rule that detectives had not honored Tice's right to remain silent and overturned his sentence after almost a decade in custody...
...Nassim Taleb, a probability expert at the University of Massachusetts, says the first step to better risk assessment is understanding that most dramatic news images represent the exception rather than the rule. "Television," he says, "messes up the probabilistic mapping you have of the world." Our questionable math skills don't help either; most people have trouble distinguishing the statistical difference between one chance in 1,000 and one chance in ten million. "Both sound small," says Graham, "but one is ten-thousand-fold more likely." Understanding those numbers, rather than taking what Sunstein calls a "risk-of-the-month...