IQ

Wissler's doctoral dissertation used the new Pearson Correlation Coefficient formula to show that there was no correlation between scores on Cattell's IQ tests and academic achievement. Wissler's dissertation eventually led the psychology movement to lose interest in psychophysical testing of intelligence.

Going native

In the 17th Century the Jesuit Fathers were reprimanded for "going native" in their attempts to adapt to the customs of the various native peoples they encountered in their missionary work. This habit has not died out in modern times. For we may say that they attempt to go native in countries that have fallen into missionary status.
One has only to consider the Americas and the European countries. They attempt to flatter the locals by adopting, and even encouraging, their practices. But they fail to realize that the practices are those of a decadent civilisation. Consider but the rampaging of sexual practices which would have shamed the Romans in their decadence. I wonder of this be not a result of their sexual ignorance. For there is no female order attached to the Society of Jesus as there is to almost all the other male orders. They certainly do not have schools for girls as they have for boys. Whence arises, I believe, a sheer plain ignorance of the feminine mind and spirit.

Government Statistics

....To ease the awful squeeze on the middle class (policy makers never talk about the poor), to reform education, and so on.

Churchill & Gandhi

(You can see there how empty and bombastic Churchill's style can sound when he's barking up the wrong tree; never forget that he once described himself as the lone voice warning the British people against the twin menaces of Hitler and Gandhi.)

Friend of the USA

"In this world, it is often dangerous to be an enemy of the United States," said Henry Kissinger, "but to be a friend is fatal."

Jews in Iraq : A new definition of chutzpah

Shortly after they overthrew Saddam, US forces found the archives of the Jewish community submerged in a flooded basement of a secret police building in Baghdad. The archive was dried and frozen and sent to the US for preservation. Last year, despite the fact that Saddam's secret police only had the archive because they stole it from the Jews, the Iraqi government demanded its return as a national treasure.

Jews in Tunisia

Then on Monday night unidentified assailants set fire to a synagogue in the town of Ghabes and burned the Torah scrolls. In an interview with AFP, Trabelsi Perez, President of the Ghriba synagogue said the crime was made all the more shocking by the fact that it occurred as police were stationed close by.

The day after the attack Roger Bismuth, President of Tunisia's Jewish community disputed the view that the scorching of Torah scrolls had anything to do with anti-Semitism. The man responsible for representing Tunisia's Jewish community before the evolving new regime told The Jerusalem Post that the attack was the fault of the Jews themselves, "because they left [the synagogue] open…This is not an attack on the Jewish community."