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...more common sense. Fewer pendulum swings and more steady courses. Less antipathy between the public and private sectors and more cooperation," he writes, and since Tsongas is a Massachusetts Democrat you know who his comments are aimed at. He is out to convince Liberal America that it should abandon confrontation for conciliation, that it should give more ground than it has already ceded...
That policy shift may tempt Harvard to abandon keeping its hefty records on affirmative action endeavors, but the University should resist the urge. Harvard should continue to report publicly on its hiring efforts, and show that the Reagan Revolution should not and will not move affirmative action from the spotlight...
...election with a clearly reasoned answer to the question of "What now?" is Senator Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts. In a new book called The Road from Here (Knopf, $12.95), he argues that the hard realities facing the U.S. will force liberal members of his own party to abandon many of their cherished political assumptions...
Luckily, this one panned out. True, Ainge's bat has been unproductive and he is not yet an accomplished fielder, but many infielders (see Rick Burleson, Craig Nettles, Larry Bowa) take some time in the bigs to develop. His decision to abandon baseball for basketball costs the Jays not just the amateur draft selection they used to sign him, not just the time and money they have invested in him in salary, in coaching, in travel and in meals, but also the future services he would perform for them on the major league level. Ainge is not a prospect...
That policy shift may tempt Harvard to abandon keeping its hefty records on affirmative action endeavors, but the University should resist the urge. Harvard should continue to report publicly on its hiring efforts, and show that the Reagan Revolution should not and will not move affirmative action from the spotlight...