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...forms of official racial preference, the one that helped make Harvey Gantt a wealthy man is the least defensible. In awarding valuable broadcast licenses, the Federal Communications Commission gives extra points for minority ownership and civic involvement. Gantt, then mayor of Charlotte, N.C., was part of a group that snared a franchise in 1985 and sold it almost immediately to a white media company. (In a crowning idiocy, the FCC -- having deliberated exquisitely, often for years, over the relative worthiness of contenders for a license -- places virtually no restrictions on how soon or to whom or for how much...
...Muslims, of special rights such as funding for religious schools and a separate civil code has also tapped a powerful vein of resentment among anxious middle-class Hindus, who feel their interests are being ignored by New Delhi. Indians have taken as well to the party's emphasis on civic virtue and piety. But some leaders are worried that in a polyglot society like theirs, such self-righteous credos can too easily degenerate into cultural intolerance. At B.J.P. rallies, it is not unusual to hear the slogan "The only place for Muslims is the graveyard or Pakistan." Warns a Singh...
Most successful people who want to give something back to their community settle for contributing money to a museum or joining the board of the town library. When Marge Schott decided to fulfill her civic duty, she invested in the local baseball team: the Cincinnati Reds. Schott, who had taken over her late husband's GM dealership, bought the club in 1984 for an estimated $11 million, and has become one of the game's highest profile owners. "It's really more than a 24-hour-a-day job," says Schott, 62. Nonetheless, she has managed to turn around...
Experience: Malone worked in the 1984 U.S. Senate campaign of Ray Shamie and three years later was appointed executive director of the Massachusetts Republican Party. In 1988, Malone ran for the Senate, losing to Sen. Edward Kennedy. Malone was the founding executive director of the Massachusetts Civic Interest Council, a non-profit watchdog organization. His business interests include real estate projects and a health club...
...Games, is suffering some early dissension with disturbing racial undertones. The organizing committee's scheme to build a water-polo pool and a field-hockey stadium on the campus of all-black Atlanta University has been frowned on by some members of the Action Forum, a group of black civic leaders. They call the plans "totally unacceptable" because school authorities were not consulted. Declared James Costen, president of the Interdenominational Theological Center: "As usual, we are being planned for rather than planned with...