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Even if the ambiguities that attend this second property are cleared up, the application of this guideline will still lead those who would have used their preferred but now prohibited epithets to employ disguised or new versions of their hateful words. This obvious consequence is a major flaw in the Law School's attempt to legislate sensitivity: it tries to address selected symptoms of racism at the expense of personal liberties, as if doing so would end the racism that causes those symptoms...
...runway, the summary firing of the travel staff, the use of the FBI to investigate the travel operation. "The Clinton message is 'I'm pure,' " said a veteran of the Reagan White House, " 'I'm above the law.' It's almost Nixonian. And it's a tragic flaw...
...first flaw in the theory of multiculturalism is a practical one. Quite simply, this country is much too diverse a place to cover all the ethnicities that comprise it in any general study of American history or society...
...second flaw in the multiculturalist theory is more fundamental. The particularistic multiculturalists (those who hold that "no common culture is possible of desirable") seem to assume that the colorful heritages and cultures of America's minorities are being suppressed by a homogeneous "white" institution. This assumption flies in the face of the basic fact that America is a nation that has been multicultural since its inception...
...Cooper plan does have one great flaw. The plan does not encourage those covered by it to work. Taking a higher-paying job could take your family from fully insured to almost uninsured, so there is little incentive to work more. A family can keep earning more until its income rises above the poverty level; at that point, the family's subsidy for health care begins to drop...