7-19/20-2010

7-20-2010—“You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap around women for five years because they didn’t wear a veil. You know guys like that ain’t got not manhood left anyway, so it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them.”—Gen. Mattis NYT A10
--E-Books top hardcovers at Amazon.----NYT B1
--China Top US in Energy—WSJ A1
7-19-2010—This was particularly pronounced among the private colleges in the study. For minority applicants, the lower a family’s socioeconomic position, the more likely the student was to be admitted. For whites, though, it was the reverse. An upper-middle-class white applicant was three times more likely to be admitted than a lower-class white with similar qualifications. Douthat, NYT A19