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...misinformed op-ed published on January 25 (“Summers’ Theory of Inequality” by Farley and Stone) is based on the false premise that Larry Summers made a confident assertion about gender differences; in fact, he laid out three different hypotheses in his 2005 talk. Farley and Stone refer repeatedly to a theory that simply does not exist. Speculating about three possibilities is quite different from stating (testable) results that follow logically from a collection of axioms—that’s what a theory...
...would have used to respond to criticism. This would be perfectly fine on a page of a fiction magazine, since the total number of quotes by Summers not dreamed up by Farley and Stone in this op-ed is zero. Among the things Summers did say in his talk was that discrimination against women surely takes place in the U.S., but this reality is conveniently ignored by these creators of a curious new literary genre dressed up as commentary...
...those tools, Willington organized a text-messaging network. If Coakley happened to be on the radio, for example, Brown supporters would receive a plea via text with the call-in number for questions. Opening that message eliminated the need to dial a phone number - "You just need to push 'Talk' or 'Call,' " says Willington. Further, Brown's staff banked on the fact that those messages might be forwarded by individuals to others in recipients' electronic address books. "We wanted to continue to reinforce the power of personal contact among friends," he says...
...Missouri Republican, asked whether HIG would be deployed if Osama Bin Laden were captured, Blair responded. "I would very much hope that the HIG would interrogate him and squeeze all the information out of him." Before reading Miranda rights to bin Laden? Bond asked. "I'm not going to talk about that," Blair said...
...tempting to see it that way. There has been much talk of China ruling the world and the clash of civilizations this would prompt. Much has been made of the notion that Chinese leaders have been showing an unexpected cockiness vis-à-vis the U.S. of late, tightly controlling what Obama did when in China, refusing to follow American leads in Copenhagen and then lambasting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for criticizing Beijing in a Jan. 21 speech on Internet freedom. But it's a temptation worth resisting. (See pictures of U.S. Presidents in China...