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...both the by-pass and the "floater" apparently will be very limited in nature, thus leaving the vast majority of students with the same old Core. Politically, the two amendments work for Dean Rosovsky. They will probably mollify most Faculty members dissatisfied with the plan, and they serve to distract attention, at least for now, from the fundamental issue: the educational validity of the Core...
Hard statistics are admittedly impossible to come by, and the estimates infuriate some feminists, who feel that these figures distract from what they believe with considerable justice to be the far more serious problem of the battered wife. Indeed, it is women who are usually on the receiving end of the worst batterings in the home. Says Straus: "When there is a fight, the woman, on the average, comes out the loser...
...white urban America. Liberal reformers, and the society that has gone along with the ideas and plans of the liberals, see crime and poverty and continued racial tension despite all their efforts in the '50s and '60s to create the Good Society. The renewed interest in ethnicity to distract from the issue of race and class, the stiffening resistance to affirmative action (or reverse discrimination, depending on your viewpoint), the call for more law and order, the idea that the federal government tried to do too much too quickly in the '60s and must pull back now, the white flight...
...Council want to continue the threat for another year; the Labor Department wants to pull out now. Anti-U.S. rhetoric at I.L.O. annual meetings does not, in the view of even its harshest critics, undo what the I.L.O. has accomplished over the years. But it does divert and distract the organization from its basic business of helping the world's workers...
...social soul, seem to prove, for example, that the nation cherishes professional teachers far less than professional athletes. Or, more broadly, that society generally values members who do its most serious work not nearly as much as the actors, clowns and jocks whose task is merely to distract and amuse. But this handy method of social soul searching is not reliable. Far more directly, income differences reflect the operations of the marketplace...