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...race" I mean "appearance," not "ethnicity.") Sadly, it would seem that so long as there are individuals on the Left who insist on continuing to play racial politics--who insist on stigmatizing a group of people as the "perpetually oppressed" segment of the population--such a deemphasis will never occur. While bigots certainly exist, I believe the leftwing McCarthyites pose a greater threat...
Such gruesome crimes were once relatively rare in the Soviet Union, whose cities were among the safest in the world. When murders and other violent crimes did occur, the public rarely found out, since official ideology maintained that they were the scourge of capitalism alone...
...think just the glut of sequels. There was one specific piece of news...that there'd been an auction conducted by the Margaret Mitchell estate, to auction off the rights to let some publisher do a sequel to Gone With the Wind [for $4.9 million]...And it did occur to us that if we were to do twenty sequels in one book, we could write a proposal suggesting that they might be worth a hundred million dollars. And, uh, they weren't quite, but it was actually a way of making a lot of parodies we wanted to do anyway...
Investigators emphasize that they are examining the Medical School because its high rate of indirect costs is "hard to believe.' Investigators have discovered incidences of overbilling at Stanford and suspect that this practice may occur at other schools with high indirect costs...
...expel thousands of them, though this is unlikely unless Israel and Jordan become involved in a major conflict. Some Israeli right-wingers have long advocated the creation of a Palestinian homeland in Jordan. The current government realizes that wholesale deportations would inflame world opinion. But should they occur nonetheless, they would provoke unrest on the east bank of the Jordan River...