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...clear about this particular case, however, is that in deciding in favor of the University of California the Court would not be forcing every other educational institution in the country to come up with quota programs. It would simply uphold the right of U.C. Davis and other institutions to employ such means to achieve the student mix they consider necessary for a good class and a socially responsible admissions policy...
...down-zoning is only one of the means city residents are hoping to employ to limit the University's expansion...
Some of Bernstein's charges were denied as quickly as the text of the article was made available by Rolling Stone. "No CBS News person has ever served as an agent of the CIA or any other intelligence agency while in the employ of CBS," insisted the network. Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Hedley Donovan said he had never condoned or known of any CIA use of TIME correspondents and said he would be "amazed" if any such arrangements had ever been approved by the late Henry Luce, Time Inc. cofounder. "Harry Luce had a very scrupulous regard...
What Others Did As Lasky notes, Franklin Roosevelt did use the FBI to harass prominent people who publicly opposed U.S. involvement in World War II. Jack and Robert Kennedy did wiretap newsmen and Martin Luther King Jr. Lyndon Johnson did employ the FBI for partisan political purposes in gathering intelligence at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J. The Kennedys did conduct a dirty campaign against Hubert Humphrey in the West Virginia primary...
...more evident promise of further promotion?or not hire at all. The minimum wage, says Sociologist Riesman, is the product of "an alliance of the better situated labor unions with the liberals against the deprived and the elderly, whom people would otherwise employ for household or for city work that now doesn't get done." Adds Stanford University Labor Economist Thomas Sowell, a black: "Talk about people being unemployable is just so much rubbish. Everybody is unemployable at one wage rate, and everybody is employable at another." Perhaps not quite everybody. In a free economy, there will always be some...