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...takeaway message of his study is a hopeful one, says Hamermesh: discrimination can be corrected. "I expect that [MLB] will not be very happy about this, but the fact that with a little bit of effort this kind of behavior can be altered, that's very gratifying. I wish with society as a whole we could reduce the impact of discrimination as easily as it could be done in baseball...
...takeaway is that they're not a homogeneous group," he said, "and that many care a lot about issues even though they're skeptical and cynical about the political system...
...grandmother used to say, there are our black people and there are other black people--and all her life Julia had secretly believed it." The shock value of this revelation wears off early, leaving little to sustain the reader through the 500 or so pages that remain. The only takeaway seems to be--to paraphrase that famous exchange between Fitzgerald and Hemingway--that rich black people are different from rich white people. They're black...
...election as a netroots triumph, Ryan Lizza replied in the magazine's blog that in addition to having the netroots' support, winning candidates also had the national Democratic party to thank, as it "dumped tons of money, strategic advice, and fundraising assistance into their races." What's the real takeaway? Of the 19 candidates that three of the biggest liberal blogs (Daily Kos, mydd.com and Swing State Project) raised money for, eight of the candidates won. This improves on the blogs' record from 2004, when Daily Kos picked out 16 campaigns to strongly support and raise money...
...While the power play remained problematic for the Crimson throughout the contest, Harvard was able to net the game’s first goal during a 4-on-4. When Dartmouth defender John Gibson mishandled the puck in his own zone, sophomore forward Jimmy Fraser was there for the takeaway, sending the puck into the right side of the net at 9:34 for a 1-0 Crimson advantage.From that point on, however, it was almost all Big Green. Dartmouth would tie the score before the period ended, then tack on four second-period goals to put the game...