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...Washington correspondent on the story, had collected information about Bakke's lawsuit. He also interviewed dozens of high-ranking officials involved with affirmative-action and other civil rights programs. When the Supreme Court's ruling came, it seemed more significant to Gorey for what it did not answer than for what it did. Reflects Gorey: "Before the Bakke ruling, the question was how America could remedy the effects of past discrimination without indulging in present and future discrimination. And that is still the question." This week's cover story, written by Edwin Warner and researched by Raissa...
...larger orders because the lines will have to expand their fleets more than anticipated. Travelers can look forward to a broader array of fare reductions. Airline executives have long been divided over a key question: Do low fares pay off? Looking at all those new passengers-and profits-the answer...
Many judicial reformers see more judges as the answer to judicial overload. Judge Kaufman's nine-judge circuit has had help from eight semiretired senior judges. But, says Kaufman, "Nothing irritates me more than to hear that the sole 'cure' is more judges. Of course there should be more, but they should be judges who know something about the dynamics of litigation and how to streamline the process." Given the Second's enviable efficiency, few will dissent...
What church claims to have 6 million U.S. clergy but only one article of faith, a belief in "that which is right and every person's right to interpret what is right"? Answer: the Universal Life Church, which was "born out of the vision of its Founder Kirby S. Hensley" in 1962. Universal Life is only one of 37 groups catalogued in a fascinating new manual entitled Religious Requirements and Practices. Its earnest notes on Hensley's "church" neglect to mention that it is the notorious ordination-by-mail mill that for the past decade has conferred...
...erupted just as White was completing his study of the 1972 race. Thus, even as he began work on the next volume in that series, he found himself increasingly disturbed by what he saw as his failure to understand fully the connections between politics and power, his inability to answer that most vexing of questions: "What's it really all about?" So he set aside The Making of the President, 1976 (he hopes to complete his presidential series in 1981) to write what he calls neither an autobiography nor a political history but "a long essay...