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...passage of this initiative may herald new, more intense and perhaps more successful efforts to rollback affirmative action nationwide. However, the recent Texaco scandal demonstrates some of the reasons why these policies were enacted and why they are still necessary. Texaco was rocked last week by the release of secretly recorded tapes of top management mocking black employees and conspiring to destroy documents that could prove that the company's promotion practices were discriminatory. One Texaco executive sneered that "all the black jellybeans seem to be glued to the bottom...
...education seems as ironic as the now-abstract concept of student veteran. The military seems to command little regard and less respect on campus today. Even the forces that hold legitimate grudges against the institutionalized armed forces (those fighting for the inclusion of homosexuals, for example) do not herald the military when they criticize it. Just as Harvard's ROTC program is housed away from the Yard at MIT, the military seems apart from the culture here and from the culture of our generation generally...
BORN: Oct. 30, 1945, Herald EDUCATION: Southern Illinois U, B.S., 1970; M.S., 1974; Ph.D., 1984 FAMILY: Wife, Jo Roetzel; two children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: Army, 1962-65 OCCUPATION: Educator POLITICAL CAREER: Sought Democratic nomination for Illinois Senate, 1982; Illinois Senate, 1984-89; U.S. House, 1988- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1988, Marion...
...quality of their news reports. It's taking the life right out of them." The San Francisco Examiner, for instance, still runs foreign news, but without a single overseas correspondent on staff. Under instructions from parent company Knight-Ridder to boost its margins from 16% to 18%, the Miami Herald will cut 300 jobs by the end of this year. Once considered a competitor of the New York Times and the Washington Post and famed for winning seven Pulitzers in the 1980s alone, the Herald has responded by shifting its focus to regional coverage and "news...
...political insiders and forces them to talk to ordinary people, it's an incredibly healthy development," says Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz. "But you can push it too far and become a player instead of a chronicler of the news." A player--or even a booster: the Miami Herald has been criticized, for instance, for running more of what Jim Mullin, editor of the New Times, a Miami weekly, calls "upbeat coverage of the joys of life in Miami...