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When Morrison's Pulitzer was viewed by some as a token bestowed to appease a racial minority, a grave injustice was done a great writer. That attempt to discredit Morrison's accomplishment, though she was vindicated by being awarded the Nobel, should remind discerning readers how such concepts as affirmative action have victimized the very people they were originally intended to affirm. It is time to let go of an outdated system and give people credit based solely on merit, blind to race, by eliminating special admissions standards and token vacancies...
...really reflects ignorance and bigotry,"Outcault said. "We decided to meet with PresidentRudenstine to have him publicly affirm theUniversity's anti-discrimination policy and tomake clear that Mansfield speaks for Mansfield...
...Coalition of Harvard Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Groups decided at a meeting last night to ask President Neil L. Rudenstine to publicly affirm the University's commitment to nondiscrimination in wake of controversial testimony by Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield...
...discovered one of the best kept secrets of Roman Catholicism: its social teaching. My mind and heart were engaged as I read, "...the conviction grows...that it devolves on humanity to establish a political, social, and economic order which will increasingly...help individuals as well as groups to affirm and develop the dignity proper to them..." (Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, paragraph 9.) In a later paragraph this church document asserts: "A human being is more precious for what he is than for what...
Challenge means loss. (A "physically challenged" person is one who used to be called "disabled" or "handicapped" -- to wit, one who has been dealt a bad blow by circumstance. To give him this more friendly sounding title is an attempt to affirm possibility on his behalf -- in other words, to be in denial...