Article: A 51-YEAR-OLD KID WHO LOVES TO THROW STINK BOMBS.(MAIN)

Byline: William Raspberry

WASHINGTON Charles Murray likes nothing better than to toss sociological stink bombs and then proclaim, with all his cherubic innocence: I had no idea it would smell like that!

The innocence this time precedes official release of the newest stink bomb (written with the late Richard Herrnstein): ``The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life.''

Murray and his co-author, who died last month, set out to examine a trend you might not have noticed as anything new and socially provocative: the isolation of the brightest Americans and the dumbestfrom the rest of the society. What is happening, ...

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