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...campus, Weil began to wonder just how much of a scourge the drug really was. Since one of his course requirements was to conduct an independent research project, he petitioned Harvard administrators to allow him to attempt the first-ever double-blind human experiments on the intoxicating powers of pot. Harvard agreed but reminded Weil that he had an obvious problem. In order to conduct marijuana studies, he had to get hold of marijuana--an easy enough proposition at any college in 1968. But in order to have his studies published, he had to get hold of it legally...
...nickname notwithstanding, professional golfer Frank ("Fuzzy") Zoeller saw Tiger Woods quite clearly. He gazed upon the new king of professional golf, through whose veins runs the blood of four continents, and beheld neither a one-man melting pot nor even a golfing prodigy but a fried-chicken-and-collard- greens-eating Sambo. Zoeller saw Woods, in short, as just another stereotype, condemned by his blackness to the perpetual status of "little...
...result, "Canadians have had to accommodate themselves more to diversity than Americans--they like to believe that they're multicultural and that the U.S. is more of a melting pot," Breton says...
Woods' melting pot lineage is just a precursor to a entire generation of interracial Americans. So far, both whites and blacks have often expected those of mixed heritage to follow the one-drop rule and to classify themselves as black if they have any fraction of African-American blood. Woods' rejection of the one-drop rule is indicative of new attitudes among interracial Americans. Hopefully, interracial people such as Tiger Woods will also help to demonstrate just how ridiculous racial stereotypes...
Speaking of the pot calling the kettle black! Even Dartboard was taken aback. Not only did recently re-elected Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, one of the ring leaders of the "keep campaign finance clean" cabal, get smacked with a fine of $300,000 and a reprimand imposed on him for ethics violations because he used tax-exempt funds to fund his own party, but also, he is now considering avoiding personal payment (and responsibility) by paying for that fine through the use of a legal defense fund...