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...correct the under-representation of Blacks in the elite ranks of our society, in such nearly exclusively white cliques as the Harvard Law Review, we should adopt procedures that will alleviate this condition as quickly as possible. Then we may discard affirmative action and interpret the Constitution as a color-blind document...
...doing his job too well," charged Democratic Congressman Harold Washington of Illinois. Alluding to the body's lack of enforcement power, National Urban Coalition President M. Carl Holman said, "I don't see how you gain anything, even symbolically, doing something like this." Yet other black leaders interpret the firings as all too symbolic of the Administration's retreat on such civil rights issues as school integration, affirmative action and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which Reagan has criticized as overly broad. "What the Administration is trying to do," says Althea Simmons, Washington lobbyist for the N.A.A.C.P...
...some of the actual participants interpret things differently. In August, two Mondale supporters, one of whom serves on the commission, wrote an op-ed piece in the Post calling for, among other things, a rule guaranteeing uncommitted positions to a large number of elected officials. Scott Lang, one of Kennedy's representatives on the panel, says bluntly. "They believe that would help Mondale. Their motivation should be what's better for the party, not what's better for a candidate. That's the way we're approaching it," he adds...
...haven't warranted much of a reaction from schools. Bowdoin College in Maine remains the only prominent institution that does not require the SAT for admission. Elsewhere, administrators point out that the exam has never been more than one aspect of their decision-making processes, that they interpret scores only as rough estimates (thus allowing for small increases resulting from special coaching), and that the SAT is "close enough to standardized," in one official's words, to provide a check on differing high school grading scales. "There will always be disparities in life," says Lawrence J. Momo, Columbia University...
...effort to remove them, apparently confident that only a small band of hard-core "crazies," as they are called by many Israelis, will hold out until the end, and that his troops can handle the situation. Prime Minister Menachem Begin himself has said nothing, which some people in Yamit interpret as a signal that he may stall on the withdrawal. Indeed, there is a growing belief among many observers that some officials are quietly encouraging the protesters. Meanwhile, however, about 90% of Yamit's residents have accepted cash compensation for their property, which in some instances has been...