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...action." Those who oppose mandatory numerical goals argue that they violate the civil rights of people who lose jobs or promotions in quota systems. "Our concept of affirmative action," says Mark Schultz, an official of the national Chamber of Commerce, "has always included the belief that the road to equal employment should not pave the way for discrimination against others." White House Spokesman Larry Speakes insisted last week that the draft, which is scheduled for discussion at a future working group of the Cabinet, was "in the early stages." He added, "It certainly has not been presented to the President...
...Welcome to America!" What sounds like the official greeting at a U.S. international airport is in fact the standard hello to customers at one of New York City's newest, largest and most successful café-restaurants, called America. In a larger sense, that greeting is equally appropriate for style-conscious eaters who formerly restricted their gastronomic forays to France, where they devoted vacation times to seeking out the specialties of superstar chefs like Paul Bocuse, Michel Guérard and the Troisgros brothers. Now with equal zeal, many such adventurers are beginning to tour the U.S., eager to sample the highly...
...considerable strength and the ultimate limitation of Agnes of God that it gives nearly equal time to each point of view. The believer is Mother Miriam Ruth (Anne Bancroft), head of a convent of cloistered nuns, whose young charge Sister Agnes (Meg Tilly) has been accused of strangling with its umbilical cord a baby to whom she had secretly given birth. The troubled cynic is Martha Livingston (Jane Fonda), a lapsed-Catholic psychiatrist determined to discover if Agnes is mad or a murderer, a harlot or a modern saint. The outsider is the moviegoer, who can have a pretty grand...
...their well-researched and articulate conclusions, which differed from the media's general notion of the black view. If nothing more, you may be waking up to the reality that thinking by black individuals is no more dominated by pigmentation than is thinking by white individuals. Clarence Thomas, Chairman Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Washington
...embassy for student visas, theybridle at what they view as an attempt by the rest of the world to suppress a budding superpower. "America wants to keep China down," Kang says. "We should all be friends. But America must accept China as a friend on an equal footing." --By Hannah Beech/Beijing...