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What follows is the shady proposition that less gray matter means more happiness--or at least less unhappiness. Given a million years on a remote island, nature turns humans into seal-like creatures of limited intellect. Flippers and sleek skulls enable them to swim after fish. There is no overpopulation...
Starting with Quisenberry, or rather, stopping with him, Kansas City is a team of pitchers, a gentle way of saying the Royals have the feeblest batting average in the American League and have scored the second-fewest runs. California, on the other hand, is a team of pensioners. From First...
In connection with these questions let us comment briefly on the matter of Martin Kilson, Professor of Government at Harvard University, and the controversy surrounding his critisism in the Harvard Crimson of certain black students' activities. First it should be understood that Kilson is, to paraphrase Churchill's remark about...
Garland Bunting talks too loud, wears store-bought glasses, doctors himself with coonhound medicine, and has such a sizable paunch that when he told a clothing salesman, "I'd like to see something to fit this," the man replied, "I would too." For more than two decades Bunting has also...
The major event on the party leader's schedule for the following day was a meeting of the Supreme Soviet, the Soviet Union's nominal parliament. Gorbachev had been widely expected to use that session to assume the presidency, formally known as the Chairmanship of the Presidium of the Supreme...