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This is what I call creative lying, and again, the wrong model is child rearing. If young children do things you don't like, you don't lie to them about the reasons, because, after all, you are trying to teach them the correct way to behave. But an Alzheimer's patient is not learning anymore, and so the issue for the family is not training or teaching, but surviving. I don't see the harm in little white lies, or even not-so-little white lies, if they maintain a certain degree of peace in the family unit...
...said that the most liberal colleges suffer the worst racial problems, owing to the discrepancy between "politically correct posturing" and real differences between racial groups...
...former editor of the Dartmouth Review said Tuesday night he believes that the "public posturing" of "politically correct" advocates of affirmative action is a source of racial tension on American college campuses...
...scholars, multiculturalism aims to toss out what it sees as the Eurocentric bias in education and replace Plato with Ntozake Shange and traditional math with the Yoruba number system. And that's just the beginning. The Jacobins of the multiculturalist movement, who are described derisively as P.C., or politically correct, are said to have launched a campus reign of terror against those who slip and innocently say "freshman" instead of "freshperson," "Indian" instead of "Native American" or, may the Goddess forgive them, "disabled" instead of "differently abled...
Some geologists, including Paul Hoffman, a research scientist at the Geological Survey of Canada, believe that the new map could point the way to valuable mineral discoveries. If the theory proves correct, silver, copper and zinc (all found in eastern Australia) should also turn up in northwestern Canada. But scientists caution that before anybody rushes out with a prospector's pick, research must confirm that the rocks in the Western U.S. are really related to those in eastern Antarctica. Dalziel estimates that this comparison should take no more than six months -- a short wait to clear up a mystery that...