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...would doubt that Ulster's troubles show the classical symptoms of a colonial struggle." That is true enough. Since the 17th century's Scottish and English Protestant settlers came to Ulster under the protection of the British Crown, the native Catholic minority has been relegated to permanently inferior status. Yet the conflict has a strong tribal aspect, with religion serving as the identifying element, even though groups such as the I.R.A. are now more likely to quote Marx than Jesus. Protestants like the demagogue Ian Paisley have kept the "religious threat" alive by constantly referring to the dangers...
Affirmative action quotas are also counterproductive and impractical. One can imagine, for example, the feelings of an applicant rejected by an employer or school, while others are being accepted, not because of their superior qualifications (they may often have inferior qualifications), but because they belong to the right race or minority group under affirmative action quotas. Such a person most likely will feel bitterness towards the favored races and minority groups, a feeling that will foster a racist attitude. Even where the applicant is rejected solely on the basis of his qualifications, he is still likely to blame the quotas...
...comments by Beckwith and by Furshpan in the Crimson represent legitimate disagreements, though it is not clear whether these comments are based on my article or on secondary sources. Lewontin's comments, however, are another matter. He is quoted as saying "[Davis] thinks blacks are mentally inferior and incompetent...[He] argues that these minority students don't have the intrinsic ability to become doctors." Nothing in my article justifies this grave charge. Neither does anything else that I have said or published. I have written to Professor Lewontin demanding an immediate and full retraction. Bernard D. Davis Lehman Professor...
...them to make more concessions to the U.S. He thinks the U.S. defense budget could be cut by about $7 billion a year, chiefly through eliminating bureaucratic waste and some expensive weapons systems, such as the B-1 bomber. But, because he believes that the U.S. fleet is becoming inferior to Russia's, he would accelerate naval shipbuilding, including the nuclear, missile-firing Trident submarine...
Formidable Seduction. Johnson's brains were inferior to very few-his genes and his drives were second to none. He lacked only a sense of proportion and restraint. Early in life, he demonstrated a formidable gift of persuasion. He had an uncanny knack for attaching himself to men of power-in school, in the New Deal bureaucracy, in Congress, in the Senate. He was miffed that his talent was dismissed as "arm-twisting"; he considered it soul-catching of a very high order. Intellectuals, he complained to Kearns, "never take time to think about what goes on in these...