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...police report of the incident as saying that she saw "two black males with backpacks" trying to enter Gates' home. But tapes of the 911 call and the police radio transmissions released on Monday show that Whalen, who was actually calling police on behalf of an elderly woman at the scene, did not mention race in her call. She noted repeatedly to the police dispatcher that she did not know if the men lived at the home and were simply having trouble with their key, and only said that one of the men might be Hispanic when asked...
...study, men who call their lives the "worst possible" are nearly an inch shorter than the average man. The women most down in the dumps are half an inch smaller, on average, than the average woman. Taller people say they are more content, and are less likely to report a range of negative emotions like sadness and physical pain. "Happiness is just one more thing that taller people have going for them," says Angus Deaton, a Princeton economist and co-author of the study, who stands a smug 6 ft. 4 in. (Full disclosure: I, too, am about...
...that helped launch the century-old organization. In a stuffy office across from housing projects, I read drafts of college essays written by New York high school students, including many by poor immigrants. I remembered Sotomayor’s controversial statement—“a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life”—and wondered: What creates wisdom...
Whalen, who said in the call that another older woman at the scene alerted her to the possible break-in, repeatedly noted that she was not sure what was happening or "if these are two individuals who actually work there [or] live there." She said that once the two men had entered the home, she looked more closely and noticed two suitcases...
...just saw it from a distance, and this older woman was worried thinking, 'somebody's breaking in someone's house, they've been barging in,'" Whalen said to the dispatcher. "And she interrupted me, and that's when I had noticed, otherwise I probably wouldn't have noticed it at all, to be honest with you. So I was just calling because she was a concerned neighbor, I guess...