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Some simple, obvious facts are too politically incorrect for academics to state publicly. Georgetown University just fired law professor Sandra Sellers and forced out professor David Batson. Sellers' offense? "I end up having this angst every semester that a lot of my lower ones are blacks," Sellers' said in discussion with another professor at the end of a Zoom call.Batson's offense? He didn't condemn the statement, but instead sympathized with Sellers’ concerns. “What drives me crazy is… my own unconscious biases playing out in the scheme of things” might be responsible for their poor scores, he said. The logic is...

AILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON - President Bush's choice for top cop is a former real estate lawyer with no law enforcement experience. But Alberto Gonzales, or "the Judge," as Bush calls him, has a lot going for him - including smarts, drive and a close friendship with Bush. "I love him dearly," Bush said of the amiable, mild-mannered lawyer in 2001. Bush has been Gonzales' patron for a decade. As Bush's career soared, he brought his loyal pal with him, touting Gonzales' inspiring up-by-his-bootstraps life story along the way. Gonzales, 49, is the second of eight children of Pablo...

ATLANTA, Feb. 14 — In 1991, with a Supreme Court nomination on the line, Larry D. Thompson went before the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify to the intellect and character of his longtime friend Clarence Thomas. But before leaving the witness chair, Mr. Thompson, who like Mr. Thomas is black, took a swipe at the various civil rights organizations that had opposed the Thomas nomination. Like those groups, Mr. Thompson asserted, Mr. Thomas understood that many black Americans continued to suffer discrimination; he simply differed with them on how to attack the problem. "Black Americans," the witness said, "need not...

The Maori Party is already driving a larger and considerably more dangerous wedge into the New Zealand Left than anything so far inserted by the National Party. As it grows in strength and consolidates its already powerful grip on the Maori imagination, the Maori Party has the potential to split Labour into two hostile camps, aggravate racial sensitivities within the trade union movement, and push the Greens below the all-important 5% MMP threshold. The Left's vulnerability to the Maori Party is entirely of its own making. From the early-1980s, the critical "sites of struggle" for most progressive political activists shifted...