Word: correctness
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...despite the politically correct curriculum, one of the most jarring sights at Lincoln is its de facto segregation. It has even spawned the saying "White by day, black by night." That's because most white students drive home when their classes end. There's even an unofficial white student union on the fourth floor of the Martin Luther King campus building. The dorms, fraternities, sororities and other social activities are dominated by blacks. "It's really sad," says Tanya Servick, a 19-year-old communications major who is African American. Josh Cleveland, 19, a creative-writing major from St. Louis...
...Although it may seem as though the "Realdoll" is merely an anatomically correct mannequin, another customer, whose name is withheld by request, expresses a feeling of companionship with his new playmate. "She arrived at roughly 1 p.m....She made the journey well, she was strapped in her seat. The only trouble was that her left shoe had come...
...Abortion Rights Activist League, who now opposes abortion, stated, "We spoke of 5,000 to 10,000 deaths a year [from back-alley abortions]. I confess that I knew the figures were totally false...It was a useful figure, widely accepted, so why go out of our way to correct it with honest statistics." Actually, in 1973 45 deaths resulted from illegal abortions...
...bigger problem. If you are going to run on personality, you'd better have one that wears well. Bradley talked about love and hope with the warmth of a telemarketer. He respected "the people," but not one by one. If the premise of a question was wrong, he would correct it even if the question was posed by a kid. His high school coach once said he played basketball grimly, as if you were supposed to suffer for the game, and he stumped for votes the same way. Even when he was having fun, he didn't look...
...course, there is always the important job of hanging the correct flag from the Yard side of University Hall when foreign visitors come...