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JOHN H. MCWHORTER. McWhorter, an Associate Professor of Linguistics at UC-Berkeley, is also author of the bestselling Losing the Race. He is promoting his newest work, Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority, which examines the present status of the Black American. Tuesday, Feb. 11, 7 p.m. WordsWorth Books, 30 Brattle...
...Bush was silent about the biggest double tax of all, one that hits every working American, not just the one-fourth of tax-return filers who report stock dividends. It's the income tax layered upon the portion of a worker's paycheck that is withheld to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes...
...stand in the shadow of a war with Iraq, most members of the Harvard community have held their peace. Those in positions to ignite a campus-wide debate have, on the whole, kept silent and allowed the University to descend into an apathetic lull. Yet this impending threat warrants that some authority figure on campus build up the courage to broach this issue and engage students in a discussion about the oncoming conflict...
Sean Palfrey said he thought the Adams e-mail list, the Schmooze, had been notably silent on war in Iraq, in contrast to spirited debates last year on issues of public policy like President Bush’s economic stimulus package...
...everything good that ever happened to South Korea. Such sentiment would be unwelcome in South Korea, where the unspoken sentiment is that South Koreans achieved democracy not because of, but in spite of the U.S., in the past an eager supporter of the military dictatorships and possibly a silent accomplice in the Kwangju massacre of May 1980 that put down a swelling pro-democracy movement...