Word: ideas
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While many Americans recoil from the idea of a return to monochromatic college campuses, Connerly does not. "We have used racial preferences to prop up a system of artificial diversity," he says, "instead of doing the heavy lifting that leads to real equality." He sees some good news in the bad. Though California's new policy doesn't take effect for undergraduates until next spring, minority applications to elite universities such as Berkeley and UCLA are already dropping--while black enrollment is up at second-tier campuses like San Diego and Riverside. This suggests that the new policy...
Companies, meanwhile, stand to lose not just the costs of a lawsuit but also their sales to minority consumers and access to the deepest possible labor pool. "If you're sued, you lose," contends Jerry Maatman, a partner at Chicago's Baker & McKenzie, who in 1989 hit upon the idea of offering companies "audits" of their personnel practices--and so their vulnerability to a discrimination suit. "Our job is to find out what's wrong and then be a doctor and heal them," he says. And judging merely by the pending suits in his own city, there is still...
...very long time; I go five days a week. I want to make sure I never do any of that stuff to my children. Because I haven't had a role model, I [might] not be what they need as a mother, because I wouldn't have any f______ idea what that is. So one idea is to go to therapy and get mothered by someone who teaches me to be a mother simply by being that...
...sourdough starter here, the mold from which all other efforts have grown, is the 1992 Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, and that, at least, seems to have been a beautiful idea. It has sold a staggering 6 million copies--making it, according to publisher HarperCollins, the best-selling hard-cover nonfiction book ever--and has been published in 38 languages. The book has earned Gray somewhere in the neighborhood of $18 million. And that's not counting the spin-offs. So far Gray has produced Mars and Venus in the Bedroom, Mars and Venus in Love, Mars...
Perhaps a semidocumentary about the nomadic Ghashghai goatherds and carpetmakers of southeastern Iran is not your idea of a fun night at the 'plex. Yet Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Gabbeh is a visual wonder, folkloric and folk-lyrical. Color has rarely been used so sumptuously as in this fable of Gabbeh (Shaghayegh Djodat), a beautiful young woman whose marriage to a dashing horseman her father keeps postponing. Gabbeh means carpet, and the young woman is a kind of textile goddess weaving a spell over the proceedings. She must watch the painful birth of a calf, the playful bickering...