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Another source is the Canadian professor J. Phillipe Rushton, who believes that Asians have greater than average mental powers, but smaller than average penises. Rushton has appeared at malls near his university, asking Blacks, Asians and whites. "How far can you ejaculate?" and "How long is your penis?" Rushton has...
The director of Wyatt Earp, Lawrence Kasdan (he also wrote the screenplay with Dan Gordon), is obviously of the school that believes all inclusiveness is a reasonable trade-off for insight. Or maybe, like a lot of literary biographers these days, he can't bear to omit any of his...
Labor Secretary Robert Reich has a good solution to one corner of the puzzle. He says retraining programs of the kind he likes so much are intended to change the terms of the trade-off between unemployment and inflation. The reason unemployment can get "too low," even while millions remain...
"You learn when you teach required course that there is always a trade-off," says Porter University Professor Helen H. Vendler. "I personally feel sorry for people who are going to die without reading a poem by Horace or play by Aeschylus, but that's up to them."
And Vendler, while acknowledging the trade-off,nevertheless praises the new knowledge she saysstudents have gained.