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...nearly every context, the fact that men choose their words more carefully in mixed company is a sign of civilization. But in a collegiate setting, such a practice threatens the institution's very purpose. If a professor collects evidence that suggests, for instance, an innate male advantage in understanding mathematical concepts but is reluctant to present such a view lest he offend the distaff portion of his class, the University's search for truth has suffered a setback. And this sort of thing takes place more often than we know...
...speech, entitled, "The Bell Curve in Historical Context," was little more than a diatribe which sought to label Jews as the sole progenitors of racism-and later the slave trade-in Europe. The basis of his argument consisted of a portion of the Babylonian Talmud, a 2,000-year-old collection of religious writings, which contain a myth that describes Africans as a cursed people who are doomed to a history of servitude...
...premise of the books is basic: the great family model of authority is defunct. The world has changed, and with it the context of leaders and followers -- even the conception of what it means to lead...
...cold war -- the vanishing of a huge external threat that helped give focus and a context of significance to both leaders and followers -- has left Americans in a state of moral disorientation, as if they had lost a defining purpose...
...female and a member of a youthful age-bracket, cannot help but consider the word "girlish," in the context in which it was used, related to myself. If a person unquestioningly accepts a connection between being a girl and being unable to speak rationally, I cannot help but feel that this person attacks me and my girl-friends...