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...basic numbers and short essays. We take the products of this distillation and present the entire package to one committee or another--a fellowships selection committee, a law or medical school admissions committee, a hiring committee at some high-powered firm. We make ourselves vulnerable to the harshest rejection...
...buried. The end game began in the Senate on Saturday, and the debate is already furious. Some of the proposed bill's prescriptions, such as requiring teen mothers on welfare to live at home or attend school, are long overdue. And Bob Dole has cleverly worked to smooth the harshest provisions of the House legislation. The drive to cut funds to moms who have more kids while on welfare, for example, would be left for the states as an option rather than mandated by Washington. That's the good news. The rest ranges from moderately bad to callous and counterproductive...
PERHAPS THE HARSHEST CRITIC OF THE ATF'S WACO RAID was the bureau's own master, the Treasury Department. In the raid's aftermath, the department launched an investigation by veteran agents from its other law-enforcement agencies, backed up by independent outside reviewers, including Willie Williams, the Los Angeles chief of police. The result was a 500-page indictment that pulled no punches yet whose details, surprisingly, went largely unreported. The Blue Book, as it is known, portrayed a dark carnival of ATF errors. Among them...
...pernicious whole. He delights in gratuitously tongue-lashing the majority of blacks who disagree with him on almost every civil rights issue. He heaps scorn on federal judges who have used the bench to enforce and expand civil rights, accusing them of a paternalistic belief in black inferiority. His harshest critics, like Wade Henderson, Washington director of the N.A.A.C.P., even speculate that "if Thomas had been on the court at the time, he would have opposed the decision in Brown v. Board of Education," the landmark 1954 decision that struck down segregated schools...
Rather than admit that, in the heat of the moment, he lost his notorious temper, Maxwell is justifying his actions. He is even complaining about his punishment, one of the harshest the NBA has ever handed down...