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...bill, which is scheduled to reach the House floor this week, is to make it easier for minorities and women to sue against "unintentional" employment discrimination, such as a hiring exam that may look fair but has the effect of keeping out members of some groups. The White House and congressional Republicans claim that the Democratic bill would go too far, encouraging the use of racial hiring quotas, subjecting white males to "reverse discrimination" and rewarding more lawyers with more money. Democrats reply that the White House alternative does not go far enough, and would make victims of discrimination jump...
This is not an exam question in a college philosophy course but a moral conundrum at the core of perhaps the most intriguing case facing the U.S. Supreme Court, Payne v. Tennessee. Justice David Souter, the court's swing vote, asked during oral argument last month whether "it really is legitimate to value victims differently depending upon the circumstances of the lives that they have chosen to lead." Tennessee Attorney General Charles Burson's response was unequivocal: "There can be no doubt that the taking of the life of the President creates much more societal harm than the taking...
...Crimson was definitely where it had hoped to be in mid-May when it arrived in Athens, Ga.--the site of the 1991 NCAA Championship--last Wednesday, but unfortunately, Harvard was the only school still in exam period...
...Crimson is surviving exam period this year in Athens, Ga., the site of the 1991 NCAA Men's Tennis Championship. By virtue of a 17-5 overall record and an undefeated Ivy slate, Harvard was extended its second consecutive tourney...
ARTFUL equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then you lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough...