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Race, diversity and affirmative action are weighty words that carry on their shoulders years of strife and struggle. Increasingly, however, they have become catch words used to grab the attention of readers, and they may have begun to lose their power. One can hardly turn the pages of a newspaper without seeing several headlines concerning race. President Neil L. Rudenstine's annual report was about diversity at Harvard, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 is in the news about his views on blacks at Harvard, "Diversity and Distinction" is a monthly campus publication, and since...
...usually self-insured firms, prefer to use the stick. Employees at E.A. Miller, a meat-packing unit of ConAgra in Hyrum, Utah, are charged extra for medical coverage if they smoke. They must also wear seat belts and, if they are pregnant, attend childbirth classes, or they could lose their insurance. It seems to work. Since the plan's inception in 1990, no employee has been killed in a car accident, and the number of premature births has dropped from three in a two-year period to just two in the past five years. "We want to teach employees...
Like most Americans, Audrey Brantley, 42, of Birmingham, Alabama, thinks it would be a good idea to get more exercise, eat less fat and lose a few pounds. Until now those decisions have been hers to make. But Brantley, who works for the city as a library assistant, is enrolled in a new kind of health-and-wellness program that has the right, under certain circumstances, to tell her what kind of shape she should try to get into--or take away her insurance coverage. The program, which is run by the University of Alabama Birmingham School of Nursing...
...know a 91-year-old woman who left Germany in 1933 with her husband and son, moved to Israel, raised her children there and watched and in effect, helped it grow. Now she is worried that through the peace process, through compromises, Israel and Israelis will lose ground. What would...
...deal, a position believed to be shared by Dole's top legislative aide, Sheila Burke. Some people think this kind of negotiation is a waste of time. Conservative guru William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, said in an editorial last week that Dole is "likely to lose" this fall and said Republicans "must not defer" to him if it means risking G.O.P. control of Congress...