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...Daydreaming or dancing in the aisles, students and faculty continue to contemplate the nature of the beast. Brave as the souls dueling the monster classes may be, they have not slain it. The beast is simply...
...symbolism. Instead, he has considered the university's ultimate goal and developed a means to that goal with the framework of the law. The resistance his ambitious plans have encountered suggests California's education problems may have as much to do with administrative malaise as with funding. Carnesale's brave response to these problems is far better for California's neglected minority students than the chants of the protesters or the ineffectual gestures of the UC regents...
...experts--among them many conservatives who once supported the laws--that mandatory minimums are foolish. The Supreme Court last week declined to hear a case challenging the California three-strikes law, but four Justices expressed concern about the law's effect and seemed to invite other challenges. A few brave politicians have gingerly suggested that the laws may be something we should rethink. Some states are starting to backtrack on tough sentencing laws...
This unequal access won't bring a rigid caste system a la Brave New World. The interplay between genes and environment is too complex to permit the easy fine-tuning of mind and spirit. Besides, in vitro fertilization is nobody's idea of a good time; even many affluent parents will forgo painful invasive procedures unless horrible hereditary defects are at stake. But the technology will become more powerful and user friendly. Sooner or later, as the most glaring genetic liabilities drift toward the bottom of the socioeconomic scale, we will see a biological stratification vivid enough to mock American...
...Brave New World, state-sponsored eugenics was part of a larger totalitarianism, a cultural war against family bonds and enduring romance and other quaint vestiges of free reproductive choice. The novel worked; it left readers thinking that nothing could be more ghastly than having government get into the designer-baby business. But if this business is left to the marketplace, we may see that government involvement, however messy, however creepy, is not the creepiest alternative...