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The NYT's SAT piece hardly mentions the ethnic angle at all, dwelling much more on differences between boys' and girls' scores, and (in the online version at least), sits under a refreshingly calm headline: "College Board Scores Vary Little From Previous Year's."
Maureen Dowd weighs in today and is refreshingly un-coy about it.
Culturebox asked that of Richard Ofshe, a social psychologist at UC-Berkeley, and his answer was refreshingly unambiguous: "There is no mental mechanism that could create this ignorance of memory.
Yet, Scalia is refreshingly right in several particulars.
As reports about the campus culture wars go, the Chicago story is refreshingly man-bites-dog.