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Daedalus warned his son Icarus not to fly too high, or the sun would melt his waxen wings. But the boy, intoxicated with flight, soared above his cautious father. In the clear blue sky, the warmth of the sun dissolved his delicate wings, causing him to plunge to his death in the green sea below. The myth of Icarus is used to illustrate the ancient Greek word hubris, a term for the overweening human pride and vanity that often result in tragedy...
Without considering--or rather focusing on--this discrepancy, no discussion of affirmative action can claim even to have begun. For the difficulty is here; it is not recruitment and it is not racism. Rudenstine in cautious terms rebuts the argument that affirmative action stigmatizes blacks, but he shows by his silence on the crucial point that he is afraid of stigmatizing blacks. Affirmative action prevents its defenders from speaking frankly about what they have done, about what they had to do, to bring diversity. They should not think their silence goes unnoticed by students, by the general public...
However, being cautious is not an easy task since a person can be virally infected and thus contagious 24 hours before he or she exhibits acute symptoms...
...tactics, which would be the case if we gave them a blank check. I told the Chinese that Americans are unpredictable: even if we said we wouldn't defend Taiwan, the U.S. Congress and the American public might change their minds. The moral of the story is, be very cautious. As you saw in 1950--when we said we weren't going to do anything in Korea--we were at war within the year...
KAREN TUMULTY learned two years ago that Tom Daschle is not entirely the mild, cautious politician he pretends to be. As a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, she spent several days with the U.S. Senator in his home state, South Dakota. Never an enthusiastic flyer, she was dismayed one foggy night to learn that Daschle had booked them onto a tiny airplane. Even worse, he let her know with a big grin that he planned to pilot the craft himself. This week the tables are turned. Daschle is Clinton's point man on Capitol Hill, and Tumulty is TIME...