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...uniforms? Does the team send out disturbing subliminal messages ("Hi, we're the Duke basketball team. Let us delight you with the sound of our nails running down a chalkboard")? The root of this loathing remains a mystery, although I suspect it may have something to do with the team's incorrigibly clean, slightly privileged image - and its annoying tendency...
...suspect things are changing a bit. I'm not suggesting we've all become altruistic, but here are two examples. A story earlier this week in the Washington Post revealed that polls from the 2000 presidential race showed that more and more high-income Americans were becoming Democrats, and more low-income Americans were turning Republican. What this suggests is that people, for better of for worse, are not choosing party affiliation purely on the basis of their own economic benefit. In fact, they are often voting against their economic interests...
...Friedman's opinion was straightforward: "All racial distinctions are inherently suspect and presumptively invalid." Equally straightforward were the retorts from University of Michigan officials. In a statement released Tuesday, university president Lee Bollinger declared, "Today's decision conflicts with settled Supreme Court law and the policies of virtually every selective university in the country for nearly 30 years. We will appeal this decision." The administration fervently defends the university's affirmative action policies, declaring that "racial diversity is critical to a high-quality education," and pointing out that many traditional factors (i.e., standardized tests, on which non-Asian minorities tend...
...what's an expat who wants to go back to do? Very little, I suspect--unless the housing market crashes completely, which is unlikely. What's more, in the interest of full disclosure, I must confess that my story, like San Francisco's, has changed. I have also grown up and, in spite of my youthful protestations, acquired a taste for a more comfortable life. Even if by magic I could return to San Francisco and live on a pittance in a ramshackle flat--even one with a fabulous "vu"--I'm not so sure I would jump...
Millions of Americans don't seem to know as much. Driver distraction is a leading suspect in about 1 in 4 of the nation's 6.3 million annual motor-vehicle accidents. The newest attention thieves are collectively known as "telematics," a term that encompasses not only cell phones but also onboard navigational systems and personal digital assistants like Palm Pilots, Blackberries and Handsprings. With an estimated 110 million Americans using cell phones and a growing army of PDA owners fetching their e-mail, stock quotes and news reports anytime, anywhere, there is growing alarm that these devices have collectively become...