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...course, we're not holding our breath...
Life requires of excellence a balance of one's reading and one's dreams, between one's life exertions and one's life fantasies, between the world's vicious self-destructiveness and its breath-taking beauty...
...College is sympathetic to the problem of underrepresentation, but in apologizing for its short-comings, cites the low pool figures for people of color in the same breath with its concerns regarding lowered standards. But to imply that looking to hire minority faculty automatically risks lowering standards, as this dangerous bipartite excuse does, can only lead to undue bias against all candidates of color, qualifications notwithstanding. In addition, with such a pronounced lack of support for ethnic studies by the relevant departments, excellent minority professors in this field face the double Harvard whammy of being a person of color...
...Clinton faces plenty of challenges before Americans decided whether he will have another term--the fate of health care and welfare reform will decide that. Nevertheless, the Clinton administration has been a welcome breath of fresh air in a city known more for its smoke-filled back rooms...
...same is true of the fall of contemporary art auctions. Last week, once again, Sotheby's and Christie's began their big spring sales of newish art. In the palmy days of the market boom, before the great flopperoola of 1990, these used to be attended with bated breath as a spectacle of utterly crazed consumption. Watch the chap from the Mountain Turtle Gallery in Japan bid half a million dollars for a Brice Marden drawing! Don't miss the sight of S.I. Newhouse and a Scandinavian squillionaire driving a Jasper Johns to an unimaginable $17 million...