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Early in the week General Blagoje Adzic, an ethnic Serb and the army's Chief of Staff, issued a chilling statement on national television: "We have to accept war because the alternative -- surrender or treason -- does not exist for us." The cease-fire imposed the next day seemed to contradict Adzic's warning...
...despite Harvard's apparent triumph, the Education Department report obtained by the press, civil rights group and top-ranking officials on Capitol Hill prompted Further criticism above and beyond the issue of Asian-American admissions. Certain details of the government's findings appeared to contradict some assertions made by the admissions office throughout the last several decades...
Another finding seemed to contradict the admissions office's claim that it gives tips to children of alumni and recruited athletes only when all other factors are equal. The Department of Education found that accepted students in those categories scored significnatly lower on average in every category used by the College to judge applicants, with the sole exception of the athletic rating...
Five years ago, the Reagan Justice Department suddenly denounced the GATB practice, saying it was reverse discrimination and thus illegal under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Such practices do seem to contradict both the letter and the spirit of Title VII, the basic equal-employment law, which was designed to foster color blindness. Race norming also runs head-on into traditional American notions of advancement based on individual achievement...
Another fear expressed by critics is that a free-trade agreement, which will have the effect of locking in all of Mexico's liberalizations, will end up simply providing the Japanese with opportunities to invest in plants that will export to the U.S. That would squarely contradict one of the Bush Administration's primary aims: to create a trading bloc in the western hemisphere to compete with the formidable bloc being created by Japan in Asia...