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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy virtuosity and wicked glee, Moo is rather like one of those comic novels in which John Updike gives himself a holiday from more draining work. And if Moo finally has more of a target than a point, it never allows us to forget that, in a certain context, no Smiley face is without its sadness...
Affirmative action has produced another, less conspicuous but perhaps more pernicious, consequence. Leonard Fein, a social critic, described this unintentional legacy of affirmative action in an historical context: "James Baldwin wrote that one of the tragedies of being Black in America is never knowing why you failed. The modern corollary, [ironically enough] is that with affirmative action, you never know why you succeeded." Although the latter is admittedly less tragic, we have created a culture in which "few Blacks are sufficiently confident of themselves or their achievements." In so doing, we have undermined one of the purposes of the program...
...They distorted the statement, blew it out of proportion and took it out of context," he said...
...saying that the knowledge presented in these courses is unimportant or that the courses should not be in the Core. What I am saying is that without a board knowledge of American history, the proper context is impossible to ascertain. Historical Study A-42 Will give you the history of Russia and Historical Study A-72 will give you the history of Western Europe, but you can search far and wide through the entire Core and never find a history of the United States...
Reopening the death penalty debate would have particular resonance in the context of the current Republican agenda in Congress. Newt Gingrich and his colleagues, mounting an all-out attack on big government, bemoan the ineffectiveness and incompetence of government bureaucracy. At the same time--with no argument from Clinton--they strive to put ever-more-powerful weapons in the hands of the criminal justice apparatus; the GOP crime bill passed by the House would speed up the execution process and give police broader search powers. Such selective surgery on governmental powers shows that the Republican crusade isn't mostly about...