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While racial prejudice was--and still is--unavoidable in the North, at least the North was relatively free from the asinine Jim Crow and the bloodthirsty Judge Lynch. At least the North never thrust jabbering Neanderthals such as Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, George Wallace, or David Duke onto the national stage...
...Holly C. Lynch '97 says she took the class because she is curious to learn to what degree "what we see in our own mothers is culturally constructed...
...weird great-granddad Jean Paul Getty. But he has scored something: his first adult role. Having fully explored the shipwrecked-child genre in his first movie, Lord of the Flies, and the newly opened White Squall, Getty's the romantic lead in Lost Highway, the David Lynch movie being filmed in Death Valley. "It's a twisted love story between me and Patricia Arquette," says Getty. "It's got sex, love, murder--all the good stuff." When not making movies, Getty produces rap records and plays golf. In fact, life would be perfect if everyone could just drop the Getty...
Companies have begun to include diversity among their top criteria for measuring success. Price Waterhouse has a new diversity index, Littlejohn says. Likewise, Merrill Lynch awards bonuses to vice presidents on the basis of eight criteria, one of which is recruitment and retention of minorities, according to Business Week...
Other critics, Business Week reports, accuse companies of simply hiring minorities to avoid lawsuits such as the discrimination complaint 10 black Merrill Lynch employees filed with the National Association of Security Dealers...