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...better than one of control from outside; a state of complete social and economic equality for a nation's citizens is better than one of inequality. The United States monstrously violated this value system in Indochina, lining up squarely and brutally on the wrong side of all three criteria. All the Indochinese liberation movements seemed to uphold and sustain these same values; they were firmly in the right. Although information about the NLF and especially the Khmer Rouge has always been sketchy, there has been a lot to know--years of daily horror stories, broad ones of policy and small...
...describe what people like about New Orieans in terms of images rather than reasons, because the reasons often done't make a great deal of sense. Harper's magazine last year printed a long and comprehensive article that compared America's 50 major cities according to a series of criteria that made perfectly good sense-things having to do with education, income levels, population density, and so forth-and New Orieans not only came out near the bottom but also, judging from the Harper's critreris, had very litle to recommend itself. Forced to defend the city, I find...
...firm of Arthur D. Little Inc., for example, conducted a study for the state of Maine. The study rated the social and environmental impact of various types of tourists by measuring them on a scale of minus one (for least damaging) to minus five for each of a dozen criteria, and comparing the total with the vacationers' average expenditure per tourist day. Topping the list, in terms of least environmental and social intrusion, are conventioneers (minus 20) and business visitors (minus 24); the two classes of visitors also spent the most money (business, $25.10 per tourist per day; conventioneers...
Until this year Leonard had tried, at least publicly, to live quietly with the frustration of implementing non-goals for departments whose criteria for tenure virtually excluded minorities. But in his annual report Leonard named names for the first time, citing drops in black enrollment at the graduate schools of business and design and going on to point the finger even more directly: "It is also difficult to explain or believe that the Department of History or the Department of English cannot find a black man or woman in the entire country with the qualifications to hold a tenured position...
...system. Without any formalized standards to guide them, one simply hopes that the judges possess at least a modicum of fairness. In the "democratic" or "common-man" version of meritocracy, one can be less dependent on the judges' individual qualities, since by means of uniform tests and other impersonal criteria the question of who wins and who loses becomes much less a matter of any one person's whim. The meritocratic competition, if it works right, represents an efficient system for society to allocate its resources to those who are best able to do its work...