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Multiculturalists abandon the liberal rationale for affirmative action, which is to help disadvantaged minorities meet established standards on their own, for the radical rationale of diversity, which is to redefine standards in a way that confirms that everyone is equal now. It turns out, ironically, that multiculturalists have less in common with liberals than they do with far-right conservatives: The only difference is that one is culturally egalitarian and the other is culturally elitist. Neither offers a vision of social progress...
President Clinton faces the challenge of creating a post-cold war foreign policy. He seems to want it to be activist, including the possibility of military action in support of democracy and human rights. Especially given his own lack of military experience, he should be happy to abandon any claim to the right to commit U.S. troops unilaterally (except in genuine emergencies) -- a right he does not possess under the Constitution in any event...
...simultaneously Eliot has resisted the temptation to abandon the qualities of the house which have distinguished its truly hallowed halls. "Even with non-ordered choice, we have still managed to maintain our character as Eliot House," says Amir Goldkorn '94. "We have not succumbed to the forces that are making other houses just like dorms...
...worst excesses have vanished. The presidential yacht Sequoia, which Nixon's aides would take down the Potomac but abandon in favor of a helicopter for the trip back, has been sold. But don't look for many bus trips. The President took his victory lap on Air Force One last Wednesday to go to the town meeting in Detroit. It's a $181 million Boeing 747 with an office, computer center, conference room, bedroom, 85 phones, 18 televisions, soft lighting and an operating room for emergency surgery. Clinton put on the blue serge flight jacket with the presidential seal...
...ancestry might have been invented to demonstrate the remark of the Brazilian novelist Jorge Amado: Mestizaje es grandeza (Mixture is greatness). Lam's father was Chinese, his mother the daughter of a slave from the Congo. (Spain did not abandon slavery in its Caribbean colonies until 1886.) He grew up hearing African languages spoken all around him, and his godmother was a priestess of a Santeria cult, a hybrid form of Christianity and African worship...