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...principle Democratic opponents, attacked Giuliani for his anti-crime zeal, framing the issue of "law and order" as a battle between crime prevention and the safety of the underprivileged--a battle in which the Mayor was on the wrong side. According to them, the fact of the Louima case somehow counterbalanced all the progress that had been made on the crime prevention front, and they held Giuliani responsible...
...call Pinker opinionated is an understatement. He declares, among other things, that there is no such thing as general intelligence. He dismisses as "neurobabble" the current fashion of dressing up fuzzy ideas about child rearing--like reading to babies--as somehow good for the developing brain. And he accuses intellectuals of pretending that evolution has nothing to do with "the fantastically complex design" of the human mind...
...gnarled finger at French gullibility; it gets at the universal impulse to create alternative truths. Lying is a way to stay alive. "When Death comes," says Albert, "we'll lie to it. We'll say, 'You've got the wrong guy.'" This anti-Hero leaves an indelible taste, somehow both bitter and savory...
Regardless of the outcome, the team has already excited an entire state that has never had reason to cheer quite like it is doing now. But if the Marlins can somehow emerge victorious in the Fall Classic, it will mark the crowning achievement in what has become a South Florida sports renaissance over the past three years...
...American literature. By perusing the Courses of Instruction, one can see one salient example of the treatment of ethnic studies as nobody's child: the current structure of ethnic studies at Harvard has no structure. A list of sundry courses taken from the Core and from various departments is somehow supposed to make up for the magnetization of the study of race and ethnicity as it relates to modern America...