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...also says something about Michael Nyman, a composer who has never quite received his due. Whether writing for films or turning out concertos, string quartets, ballets and chamber operas, the English critic turned composer is a cult figure on both sides of the Atlantic who yearns for wider acceptance. "I've had to contend with a certain amount of envy and puffy-nosed disapproval," he says. "I can do a concert at Festival Hall in London and get a standing ovation, which doesn't happen much in new music. And there will always be a few sour-faced critics...
...between upper-class whites and upper-class Blacks (although the IQs of each group are higher) is actually wider than the gap between lower-class whites and lower-class Blacks," he wrote. "This fact, borne out by decades of scholarship, strongly suggests a genetic component...
...fact, the gap between upper-class whites and upper-class Blacks (although the I.Q.'s of each group are higher) 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. But even if intelligence were in some significant or concrete way the product of environment, Murray and Herrnstein argue persuasively in the most recent New Republic that the burden of proof is on their critics to point to a "single educational, preschool, day care or prenatal program that is not already being tried...
Incumbent Senator Dianne Feinstein (D., California) appears to be pulling ahead of her G.O.P. challenger in a nasty, no-holds-barred campaign that's the most expensive senate race in history. A San Francisco Examiner poll released this weekend shows Republican challenger Michael Huffington lagging by 6%, wider than a gap of 4 points earlier this month. Still, that's small consolation for Feinstein, who once led by 26 points. Analysts attribute Huffington's strength to a $17 million spending binge, twice Feinstein's expenditures to date...
Hewitt noted the wider range of science issues being covered by today's groups...