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There is a pathetic ritual every night in Harvard libraries. Diligent sons and daughters of the University are sent packing, thrown out on the mean Cambridge streets to seek knowledge elsewhere. Actually, many of them resort to congregating like refugees in the poorly lit Greenhouse Cafe. "[M]y room's really noisy and I can't get much studying done there most of the time," explained a dismayed James S. Chang...
Healey refused to speculate about whether he would seek to extend his term beyond...
...tests sets this work apart from others which seek only to compare different races' attainments. According to Murray and Herrnstein, the Intelligence Quotient measures people's "cognitive ability," in a word, smarts. The authors attempt to interpret something we all know--that some racial groups are more academically and socioeconomically successful than others--as a sign that some racial groups are dumber than others. In short, a theory of inequality rooted in environmental differences (which can be changed) is replaced with one rooted in genetics...
Lake is mostly the story of John Wade, a boyish, idealistic politician who retreats to a cottage in the Minnesota woods to recover after a humiliating election defeat. There, with Kathy, his longtime wife and college sweetheart, he looks into the mist over the lake and plays hide-and-seek with his unwanted memories. For Wade is not only an earnest man of principles, he is also a spooked vet who wakes up yelling in his sleep recalling the horrors he was part of -- and party to -- in Vietnam. Kathy is guilty of her own betrayals, and the wary husband...
...rare unified blips on the heart-monitors of public opinion are invariably amplified and exploited by congressional campaigners. Showing no discrimination for which of those mass sentiments they exploit, many candidates simply tout the Gallup line, even if it means promoting hate for and undermining the very institution they seek to build. Polls showing that 70 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with Congress are like great waves of what the New York Times calls "sheer undifferentiated anger" on which candidates can coast to victory...