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...coddle Murray. The media has not held Murray fully accountable for his deceit. For example, Murray and The Bell Curve are still described using mild adjectives such as `controversial' (who can imagine neo-Nazi skinheads being referred to as merely controversial?). At worst, Murray is seen as a scholar who got carried away with his work and ended up outside the mainstream of conventional scientific thought...
...example of Murray's willful attempt to mislead readers will suffice. Much of his data about a racial hierarchy of intelligence is taken from the work of Richard Lynn, who is described as a "leading scholar of racial and ethnic differences." In fact, Lynn is a white supremacist who has advocated the extermination of 'inferior' people and claimed that only whites and Asians have made major contributions to civilization...
...second ballot, Wayne "Rusty" Drugan Jr., treasurer of the Republican city committee, a Rhodes scholar and a resident of Cambridge's 7th ward, where Samp also lives, defeated four other challengers to gain the committee's top endorsement...
...debater, in arguing against a separate culture for the deaf, argued for the value of equality. Fair enough. "Separate is inherently unequal," the would-be constitutional scholar declared, his voice trembling importantly. "This is what the Supreme Court decided on the issue of slavery...
DIED. J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, 89, former Democratic Senator from Arkansas and founder of the international exchange program now known as the Fulbright fellowships; in Washington. A Rhodes scholar, Fulbright was named president of the University of Arkansas at 34, but lost that job soon after his journalist mother wrote an editorial criticizing the state's Governor. From the beginning of his career in Washington, Fulbright focused on world affairs, submitting, as a freshman Representative in 1943, the resolution that ultimately led to the creation of the United Nations; he initiated the scholars' exchange program two years later when he reached...