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...IKNOW A LOT of Asians who don't just study." At that moment, I realized what a sham political correctness is--a placebo, a magic hallucinogenic pill that causes uncomfortable facts to recede into a distant haze. Political correctness directs all our frustrations at racists, real or imaginary, at the price of losing any realistic assessment of ourselves...
...Kennedy Smith murder trial is that the television cameras are making a circus out of it. This is not surprising; television is always the whipping boy of the so-called serious Americans. But, especially in this case, it is the print media which have turned this trial into a sham and grist for the daily gossip pages. In short, the print media's coverage of the William Kennedy Smith trial has been atrocious...
Isiah Thomas, that is. The selection process for the U.S. Olympic basketball team was a sham...
Aristide is a man of contradictions. Soft-spoken and relaxed in private, he is like a pillar of fire when he addresses the public. As a priest he spoke tirelessly against what he considered "sham" elections -- then he became a candidate himself. In 1987 he thought the new, liberal Haitian constitution was a fancy-dress costume being worn by a brutal dictatorship; as President he learned to use it well. A longtime champion of human rights, he has been reticent until very recently about condemning mob violence...
...hatched the scheme and heads the project, and Texas billionaire Edward Bass, who is financing the venture, have been described as onetime members of a cultlike commune. Biosphere participants have admitted that the degrees some of them received from the Institute of Ecotechnics in London are something of a sham; the institute was set up by Bass to confer legitimacy on the project...