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...these cases is so revolutionary as to warrant the Justice Department's comment or intervention; rather, each seems a new pretext for the Administration to assert its predetermined stance on civil rights policies. Even the Boston case, which presents the legitimate constitutional question of whether seniority plans are exempt from remedial affirmative action, is by no means a glaring case of unwarranted reverse discrimination. All race-conscious hiring plans seem destined to create some backlash for white workers, and courts have repeatedly asserted that it is not unreasonable to ask whites to forego advantage they enjoy because of prior discrimination...
First, the plan offers very little money to those able to take advantage of it. It merely allows parents to deposit up to $1000 a year in a special savings account, in which the interest accrued--not the capital deposited--is tax-exempt. A Treasury Department official estimates that for a family earning $30,000 a year with two college-bound children, the benefits over six-years would be about $750 a child...
...even the most prestigious schools are exempt from the no-show trend. Harvard Business School, whose 1982 graduates earned salaries ranging from $15,000 to a lofty $85,800, has so far scheduled recruiters from 300 companies for interviews with its 782 graduating M.B.A. candidates. That corporate guest list is 8% smaller than the 1982 version, which was down 5% from the year before. Placement officers at M.l.T.'s Sloan School expect some 150 firms to call, down nearly 15% from the level of two years...
...cauterizer of the German body politic. In the 1977 telefilm (reduced from three hours to 110 minutes for theatrical release), he portrays Hanni and Xaverl not simply as predator and willing prey but as victims of both economic hypocrisy and puritan prurience. Nor is the viewer exempt: he must peek at Hanni's lovemaking through frosted train windows and the billowing lace curtains of the middle class. The leading actors are exemplary: Trissenaar, porcelain-skinned and angel-faced and scarily self-possessed, and Raab, the perpetual slow schoolboy horrified by the games adults play...
Nothing could be more obvious than the evidence supporting Riesman. Scofflaws abound in amazing variety. The graffiti-prone turn public surfaces into visual rubbish. Bicyclists often ride as though two-wheeled vehicles are exempt from all traffic laws. Litterbugs convert their communities into trash dumps. Widespread flurries of ordinances have failed to clear public places of high-decibel portable radios, just as earlier laws failed to wipe out the beer-soaked hooliganism that plagues many parks. Tobacco addicts remain hopelessly blind to signs that say NO SMOKING. Respectably dressed pot smokers no longer bother to duck out of public sight...