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MORE THAN 25 years have passed since K. Gunnar Myrdal first wrote of the "American dilemma"--the conflict between America's democratic and egalitarian ideals and its treatment of racial minorities...
...with only 31 percent of those Blacks who even make it to college graduating, with over 56 percent of Black families headed by single women and (according to the Urban Institute) with more than one quarter of Blacks still facing some from of discrimination in the workplace, the American dilemma seems alive and well...
...many whites, a new American dilemma has emerged--a conflict between America's meritocratic ideals and its race-based preferential treatment in hiring, election districting and school choice. President Reagan tapped into this dilemma, galvanizing a slice of white working voters around "a new conservative egalitarianism," as Thomas B. Edsall of the Washington Post and Mary D. Edsall '65 wrote recently...
...client's ends are going to dominate, and the ability to do good is sometimes limited." Turow says. "For me, no less than any other lawyer, it's a daily dilemma...
Turow will discuss the challenges of this dilemma in today's address . Turow says hi speech will focus on "where I was on my equivalent class day and the lessons I gleaned 22 yeas down the line...