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...lower I.Q.s than whites is significant because "there is little question that whatever I.Q. measures has a lot to do with what is involved in becoming a doctor or lawyer or professor." As McGuire writes, "In fact, the gap between upper-class whites and upper-class Blacks...is actually wider than the gap between lower-class whites and lower-class Blacks. This fact, borne out by decades of scholarship, strongly suggests a genetic component...
...frontiers. And in a global marketplace the notion that authoritarian rule can be combined with free enterprise-the notion might be called Lee Kuan Yewism, for Singapore's Godfather-cannot work indefinitely. The U.S. maintains that countries aspiring to membership in nato, in the European Union or in the wider community of developed nations must respect democracy, free enterprise and human rights. But Washington is notably passive in promoting freedom of the press...
Britain's antiterrorism fight also required changes in the nation's law as embodied in the 1974 Prevention of Terrorism Act. It gave police wider search powers than their counterparts enjoy in the U.S. It also permits them to detain suspects for seven days without charge, which would probably violate the habeus corpus provisions of American...
...Allis, our Boston bureau chief, examined the atrocity's wider repercussions: "It was not until a Muslim student at Oklahoma University told me he feared for his life that I realized the bombing would hurt different people in different ways." Correspondent Ed Barnes' hunch that the terrorists might this time prove to be American was cinched when he learned the birth date that was cited on the fake driver's license used to rent the bomber's truck: April 19. Barnes recognized the date as one that is near talismanic to the survivalist fringe he had observed while reporting...
...REPUBLICAN POLITICAL LEADERSHIP and those who accept its theories of returning wider powers to the states by deconstructing the Federal Government have forgotten their American history. This approach has been tried before and found wanting. Under the Articles of Confederation, the new nation attempted to operate as a loose alliance of the former colonies from 1781 to 1789. It was found to be so unmanageable (George Washington called it "little more than a shadow without the substance") that general dissatisfaction led to the creation and adoption of the Constitution, under which the U.S. has managed pretty well for a couple...