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...America in the era of affirmative action is this: middle-class black people are better off and lower-class black people are worse off . . . The most disadvantaged black people are not in a position to benefit from preferential admission." In response, some scholars wonder whether socioeconomic class ought to augment race, or even replace it, as a criterion in affirmative action. Proponents say that would be fairer and, in a society of limited resources, more effective. They add that it might diminish backlash -- especially if preferences went to poor whites as well...
Helmick was not the only suspected Olympic profiteer. According to the U.S. Skiing federation, which trains the Olympic ski team, USOC executive director Harvey Schiller offered to augment the team's financial grants in exchange for ski passes and accepted free ski equipment for his personal use. Schiller denies this, saying he paid for all the equipment he received. But Howard Peterson, president and CEO of U.S. Skiing, also charged last week in a letter to the USOC that "individuals in the USOC have used their position to intimidate and threaten others who comment on the actions of the USOC...
...more alarming was the attempted mobilization of three so-called round- out brigades, each of which had been scheduled to augment a regular Army division. Although the Pentagon had given all the units a C-2 rating, its second highest standard of battle readiness, the three brigades -- totaling 15,000, one-fourth of the Army Guard members summoned to active duty -- were declared unfit for combat by regular Army commanders and could not be sent to the gulf...
...Infantry Brigade of the Georgia National Guard appears to exemplify all that can go wrong with the Total Force policy. Some $40 million a year was spent to train and equip the 48th, which was considered a crack Guard unit. In the event of war, it was scheduled to augment the regular Army's 24th Mechanized Infantry Division. Said General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the 24th before he was tapped to lead Desert Storm: "I expect them to fight alongside us. They are, in fact, combat ready...
...augment research activity at the college, officials plan to increase the number of grants available for visiting scholars at the Bunting Institute, the Murray Research Center and the Schlesinger Library...