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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...

Author: By Daniel Choi, | Title: Off the Beaten Track | 2/5/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: Sham and Grist | 12/7/1991 | See Source »

Isiah Thomas, that is. The selection process for the U.S. Olympic basketball team was a sham...

Author: By Phillip M. Rubin, | Title: Thomas Got Screwed | 10/19/1991 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Than A Little Priest | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wizards of Hokum | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

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