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This week's House vote on the Markey Amendment provides the clearest example of how the states rights issue has been transformed from a conservative to a liberal doctrine...
...times too the Administration turned to secrecy for operations it could have conducted openly. Congressman McCurdy recalls asking Jonas Savimbi, the leader of anti-Marxist guerrillas in Angola, whether he desired open or covert aid. Savimbi replied that he wanted the clearest possible expression of American support, so in 1986 McCurdy and a bipartisan group of legislators voted to provide aid overtly -- only to be opposed by the Administration, which insisted on arming the guerrillas on the quiet, for diplomatic reasons...
...After nearly a decade of on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand rulings, last week's decision provides the clearest declaration yet on the role of affirmative action as a remedy for inequality in the American workplace. For the first time the Supreme Court explicitly ruled that women as well as blacks and other minorities can receive preferential treatment. Even more significantly, the decision endorsed a voluntary affirmative-action plan in a situation where there was no proven history of discrimination; all that was necessary, wrote Justice William Brennan for the majority, was evidence of a "manifest imbalance...
...emerged as a dynamic figure who challenges both his own people and his adversaries. He has introduced a new policy of glasnost, or openness, that is changing, at least superficially, dozens of areas of Soviet life. His ultimate goal, which he spelled out last week in the clearest terms to date, is nothing less than a transformation of Soviet society, one that will speed up the country's sluggish economic growth and modernize its aging institutions...
Quite often the works that seem most "expressionist," the clearest indexes of a mind approaching the end of its tether, are the most tenderly scrupulous in their treatment of fact. One has only to go to Saint-Remy and stand on the edge of the olive grove outside the asylum, looking south toward the chain of limestone hills called the Alpilles, to realize that Van Gogh changed nothing essential in the view when painting Olive Trees with the Alpilles in the Background in the spring of 1889. The heaving stratification of the limestone, its caverns and holes, and the turbulent...