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...first starting point for those interested in seriously addressing the problems of Blacks in America today would be to concede the complexity and variegation of these problems. The civil rights movement has indeed brought change. So today, even though racism still remains as a class-blind constraint on the mobility of all Blacks, race is being increasingly superseded by class as the most crucial determinant of Black's economic and social status. This means that policies aimed at helping Black must be increasingly class-specific. Second, since the Black middle classes seem to be maintaining their recent social gains, priority...
...nuclear proliferation. In 1978, as head of Washington's Ethics and Public Policy Center, he caught Reagan's eye with a paper titled "The Trivialization of Human Rights." In it Lefever rejected the basic premise of the division he now heads: "There should be a profound moral constraint on efforts designed to alter domestic practices, institutions and policies within other states." He aroused a particularly bitter controversy by defending sales of powdered infant feeding formulas in underdeveloped nations-a trade that critics say produces alarming rates of malnutrition and infant death-while at the same time Lefever...
Given the economic constraint, the admissions committee and athletic department focus their energy on finding qualified student-athletes while alumni provide the University with a network of contacts, often playing the role of matchmaker. "I don't think alumni can judge athletic talent," Stoeckel says, "but they help relay information and establish crucial follow-up contact." Stoeckel serves as liaison between the admissions committee and the athletic department, a position created to improve and ferret out as many viable candidates as possible. "We don't want to force a choice between a good athletic program and a good education...
Within this rigid constraint, the actors deliver mannered performances that are in several cases impeccable. David Cort, as the evil brother who engineers the Duchess' downfall, is unremittingly sinister. A Cardinal with a Borgia-like disregard for the moral teachings of the Church, he covets the wealth of his sister, a young widow, and cold-bloodedly arranges her excommunication and then her death. The Cardinal seduces and discards young women, betrays his brother, an ally in the conspiracy against the duchess, and is finally himself assassinated. The audience applauds when the Cardinal dies: Cort's portrayal allows for no sympathy...
FROM THE POCKETS of property taxpayers will come the dollars needed to keep the cuts in services fairly shallow this year. But a new constraint on services threatens. Tax bills are mailed out in the fall; and two weeks later another autumn event, statewide elections, will offer taxpayers the chance for a California-style tax revolt. "People can't vote to decrease their grocery bills or the amount of money they pay for heat," Duehay said recently. "I'm afraid that coming on the heels of this tax increase, voters may be in a very receptive mood for tax-cutting...