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...classify its citizens by race: The post-apartheid government instituted an affirmative action program called Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) to redress the massive imbalance of economic power in favor of whites. BEE legislation relies for the most part on apartheid's definitions of "black." It is held to cover those excluded from power and privilege in the old order - African, Colored and Indian. But although they were also excluded, Chinese South Africans were passed over. The Chinese community fought back, and on June 18 this year, it won a ten-year legal battle to redress that slight. At a stroke...
CARLA BRUNI on Vanity Fair cover. Mr. Merkel slighted again...
There is no excuse for your flighty defense of the New Yorker cover depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as fist-bumping terrorists. You ask in the piece if America has lost its sense of humor--America has not. But we have lost patience with the kind of hatemongering that drove the New Yorker to try to sell magazines by marginalizing the man who will be the next President of the United States. You should be ashamed of defending its terribly bad decision to run that cover. Thomas Rajala, STOCKTON, CALIF...
...which is sending Brian Williams to the Games as well as its sports crew, says it will cover breaking news in China even if it reflects poorly on the country's rulers. It owes its viewers to do at least that--and probably more. This Olympics isn't just a game. It's a chance for journalists to show their viewers the complexity and contradictions that Hollywood hasn't. That doesn't mean demonizing China; it does mean reporting on both the vitality and the repression, the economic growth and the political stagnation...
...massive Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 offers U.S. homeowners, lenders and local communities some relief from the mortgage crisis. The bill is nearly 700 pages, but here's a highlight reel: ? An increase in the federal debt limit from $9.8 trillion to $10.6 trillion, to cover a possible bailout of the beleaguered mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae ? $300 billion in mortgage-refinancing funds backed by the Federal Housing Administration ? $180 million in counseling and legal services for homeowners facing foreclosure ? Tax credits of up to $7,500 for new homebuyers...