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...correct the under-representation of Blacks in the elite ranks of our society, in such nearly exclusively white cliques as the Harvard Law Review, we should adopt procedures that will alleviate this condition as quickly as possible. Then we may discard affirmative action and interpret the Constitution as a color-blind document...
...Reagan just a fortnight ago finally admitted it. Beneath the disappointment and embarrassment, however, lurks opportunity. Few successful programs emerge as Presidents plan them. Reagan stands at a point of departure, offered the chance to build a new scheme on some solid budget and tax gains and discard some failed notions. A vital presidency is perpetual motion...
...should buy this, or at least use The Coop's copy when shopping there. Bob, you're a model for all us tortured souls. The two pages subtitled "Who Cares?" and the one called simply "Meltdown" in the back show the proper attitude when regarding rock. Discard the bullshit. Turn off the typewriter, put on the stereo, and dance...
...pregnant women and nursing mothers all over the state were enjoined not to eat waterfowl, and everyone else was told to down no more than one duck or a pound of goose a week-or, at most, six ducks a year. As for preparation: pour off the meat drippings, discard the skin, and don't stuff the duck...
Western Europe's political leaders have been fairly warned. If there is any discernible mood sweeping the Continent, it is an indiscriminate, throw-the-rascals-out rejection of the status quo. On the same day that Valéry Discard d'Estaing was losing the French presidency to Socialist François Mitterrand, West Berlin voters were giving a similar demonstration of discontent with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democrats, who had ruled the divided city for 26 years. Tainted by corruption, the city's Social Democratic Party polled a meager 38.4%, its worst...