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Peyser, former editor of the Musical Quarterly and author of an earlier warts-and-all biography of Composer-Conductor Pierre Boulez, professes to admire the manifest gifts of Bernstein the musician, but clearly she finds Bernstein the man repugnant. How else to account for incident after unpalatable incident that depicts him in the most unflattering light? Here he is, sharing a panel in Minneapolis and expounding publicly on a well-known colleague's adult circumcision. Here he is at a party at Indiana University in 1982, obscenely serenading the dean of the music school...
...smiled. "Well, Al Haig's running for president," I said. "Which is pretty exciting. With any luck we may see a return of Manifest Destiny...
...women as well as blacks and other minorities can receive preferential treatment. Even more significantly, the decision endorsed a voluntary affirmative-action plan in a situation where there was no proven history of discrimination; all that was necessary, wrote Justice William Brennan for the majority, was evidence of a "manifest imbalance" in the number of women or minorities holding the positions in question...
Voluntary affirmative action. According to last week's ruling, companies and agencies have the option of adopting voluntary programs to hire and promote qualified minorities and women to correct a "manifest imbalance" in their representation in various job categories, even when there is no evidence of past discrimination. Decisions should not be made exclusively on the basis of race or sex, explains Assistant Professor Kathleen Sullivan of the Harvard Law School. However, these factors can now be legally weighed in the balance, says Sullivan, "with a thumb on the scale...
...July she was again loaded with rifles in Poland and then ammunition in Portugal. Harbor documents showed she was headed for Yemen, but the ship's manifest said Guatemala was the final destination. She returned to Portugal and then departed for Cherbourg, where Hakim had her cargo transferred to another freighter, which later docked at two government depots in North Carolina. It is unclear whether the weapons ever reached the contras. The Erria was then used in an attempt to exchange rifles with Iran for two captured Soviet T-72 tanks sought by the U.S. for intelligence purposes -- a deal...