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...that the difference between our two countries is that nine out of 10 French know who Marceau was, while only one in 10 Americans has heard of Mailer. And others, more mischievous still, would assert that Mailer was better known in Europe than in the U.S. Indeed, Woody Allen, William Klein, Philip Roth, Paul Auster and so many other American creative spirits are bigger draws in this country, with its supposedly moribund culture, than they are in the U.S. No doubt, you will say, this is because our French artists are not up to scratch, and our public turns...
Indiana University archaeologists identified remnants of the ship that British privateer turned pirate William Kidd abandoned in the Caribbean in 1699 when he went to New York City to clear his name. The Quedagh Merchant had long eluded treasure hunters...
Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said that since the new program could boost Harvard’s yield—the number of admitted students who matriculate—the admissions office may accept a smaller class this year...
...legal observers have noticed one important difference between crack and other drugs: those convicted of crack violations are overwhelmingly black. While 27 percent of those convicted of crimes related to powder cocaine are black, the figure jumps to an astounding 85 percent for crack. As Sentencing Commission member Judge William K. Sessions III argued in announcing the decision, “justice is, and must always be, colorblind”—an impossibility when the use of a drug associated with one community is punished much more harshly than the use of a very similar drug favored...
Steven Pinker, Jane Goodall and Richard Wrangham sit on the tenth floor of William James Hall munching on Froot Loops. They shriek in unison whenever a stranger enters the room, and they poop all the time...