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Bill Clinton needs to select people who will work best for the American team. They shouldn't have to meet any criterion but merit for these jobs. And yet, in today's selection process, it is acceptable for Clinton to select not the best people for the job, but the best people in certain minority groups...
...Court's traditional criterion for judging the relative importance of secular laws and religious rights has been "compelling state interest." For example, the state would have an obvious interest in protecting citizens from a human-sacrifice cult, an interest which would outweigh the group's "freedom of religion" argument...
Commercial banks and S&Ls confidently assure loan applicants that under federal law, qualifying for a home mortgage isn't a black-and-white issue -- it's green. Theoretically and legally, the sole criterion is whether the borrower can repay the loan. But a new nationwide survey by the Federal Reserve Board shows that in 1991 banks denied home mortgages to 37% of all black applicants but only 17% of whites. Sadly, income disparities don't account for the gap. Even among the highest income blacks, 23% of applicants were denied loans, vs. 9% for whites of comparable income...
Your other criterion with famous celebrities is that you only accept a case when there's a critical issue involved...
...Harvard have no reason or right to resist the fact that just as there are better and worse schools, there are smarter and dumber kids, and the smarter ones belong in the better schools. Rather than a lottery system, President Bush and Gov. Bill Clinton should advocate a merit criterion to determine which students would make the best use of private-school educational opportunities...