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...Britain's Sunday Times Magazine last weekend - it's clear that Watson's latest provocation is not one he'll shrug off lightly. Indeed, Watson, 79, says he is "mortified" by the imbroglio, and apologizes "unreservedly" for the offending comments, in which he suggested black people are not as smart as whites: he told the Sunday Times' Charlotte Hunt-Grubbe that he is "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa," since "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas testing says not really." Watson also told Hunt-Grubbe, who lived...
...poetry at a fast clip and reflect the spontaneous nature of Pinsky’s thoughts. Pinsky’s confusion emanates from each page as he jumps from idea to idea with each successive couplet. Each poem, he writes, “is acting dumb...in a smart-ass way involving the contradiction of naming.” Unfortunately, some poems are too successful in embodying Pinsky’s confusion and fail to move the reader. These vignettes, overwhelmed by jumbled thought, sacrifice meaning for style. Ironically, the character of “Gulf Music?...
...those mysterious Republicans who seem to be running for President because everyone needs a hobby--raised $5 million from July through September, mostly on the Internet. Paul is a libertarian. In fact, he was the Libertarian Party presidential candidate in 1988. The computer revolution has bred a generation of smart loners, many of them rich and some of them complacently Darwinian, convinced that they don't need society--nor should anyone else. They are going tobe an increasingly powerful force in politics...
...were going to play the parlor game of arranging the most interesting, improbable, imaginary conversation among American entertainers, you could do worse than the one that took place in midtown Manhattan earlier this month. The participants were the filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, known for smart, stylish and slightly silly movies like Fargo and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and the novelist Cormac McCarthy, who won the National Book Award for All the Pretty Horses and the Pulitzer Prize for The Road. If it were a reality show it would be called Eccentric Genius Island...
...years,” she said, but declined to enter into policy detail, saying Patrick should begin by devoting more attention to the problem. “There are things in existence that have inadequate funding,” she said. “He’s a smart man.” Lockridge-Steckel said she was optimistic about the impact of the vigil and the open letter, adding that the governor has agreed to a Nov. 2 meeting with a group of high school and college students who recently wrote him a similar open letter. BSA Political...