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...Brumage herself is beginning to acquire a bit of fame. Two years ago she and a friend started travelling around the country, giving "motivational programs." Entitled "You're Extra Special" (YES), the programs attempt to help schools, businesses or organizations boost their morale...
...tremendous and historic victory for civil rights," exulted Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. "The Supreme Court has repudiated the Meese-Reynolds attempt to gut affirmative action." | Justice officials refused to accept defeat. Meese blithely dismissed the opinions as mere pinpricks upon his policy, insisting, "The court has accepted the general position of this Administration that racial preferences are not a good thing to have. What they have done is carve out various exceptions to that general rule, even while affirming the rule itself." The Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, William Bradford Reynolds...
...towering figures from the Soviet Union's past re-emerged last week in an apparent attempt by Soviet leaders to come to terms with some of the unmentionables in the country's history. The first was Nobel-Prizewinning Writer Boris Pasternak, the second V.M. Molotov, a long-time aide of Stalin...
More generally, the majority insisted that the Supreme Court should display "great resistance" against any attempt "to discover new fundamental rights" not enumerated in the Constitution. "Otherwise," wrote White, "the judiciary necessarily takes to itself further authority to govern the country without express constitutional authority." For years conservatives have attacked judges, particularly Supreme Court Justices, for reading their own moral and political views into the Constitution. White's opinion was an unusually explicit acknowledgment of that criticism by a Justice, and it may portend greater deference by the court to the actions of elected officials...
Wang's appointment marks an attempt by Deng Xiaoping and other top Communist Party officials to convince Chinese intellectuals that the repression of the Cultural Revolution will not recur. Writers, however, remain skeptical. Despite his advocacy of creative freedom, Wang has proved a staunch supporter of party policy on the arts...