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Eastern European Jews and East Asians are cultural groups as well as racial groups, from what I understand (though there is of course genetic and cultural variation within each group). In citing them I thus wasn't implying a causal link between race and crime. I'm not convinced that there is...

"Meanwhile, you seem to be trolling around, looking to incite a discussion about "some low income groups". That doesn't strike me as a smart move." 42, I posted the latest editorial on this thread topic from our major local paper, raised an objection to the major assumption of that editorial...

Whoever came up with it, it's quite the clever image-meme. Women want to B her, men want to [another letter of the alphabet] her. She enters our hearts, minds, and collective masturbatory Roladex.

Certainly Area A, in which a crime-prone group is mixed with a non-crime-prone demographic, will have a lower rate of crime than Area B, which is filled with crime-prone people. I suppose that's something close to a tautology! But why is it that some low-income groups more than others seem...

The causes of crime go far deeper, I am arguing, than any revision to TCHC design policy could fundamentally alter. The TCHC should continue to do its best to meet its institutional mandate to provide affordable housing for those who need it.

"Which foot does she have up in the air, the left or the right?" It changes, depending on which direction one perceives her to be rotating. But that does not imply that the actual animation changes. By my senses of the terms in the context of this discussion, a trick would be a two-part...

from www.thestar.ca Regent Park redesign sign of lessons learned Nov 01, 2007 04:30 AM Christopher Hume Nowhere is the power of illusion more clearly demonstrated than at Regent Park. When the housing complex was designed and constructed in the late 1940s and early '50s, it was...

If it's a trick, how is it that I am able now to interpret her movement, for any given rotation, as going in whichever direction I decide? That is, I can continuously interpret her as moving clockwise, or I can continuously interpret her as moving anti-clockwise, or I can alternate in whatever...