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...following excerpts are from a Crimson roundtable on affirmative action held last week with Mary Jo Bane, associate professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. Meldon Hollis, administrative aide in Harvard's affirmative action office, and Harvey C. Mansfield '53, professor of Government. Mark E. Feinberg, Laura E. Gomez, and Jonathan S. Sapers moderated the discussion...
...Mansfield: Affirmative action is getting to be a perjorative term, and deserves to be still more so. There are two objections that can be made. One is made by many people, it is the justice of punishing a group of individuals--a group of people themselves may not have discriminated. And then rewarding a group instead of an individual--that is, rewarding individuals who may not themselves have suffered, or suffered deeply, discrimination. But! think still worse than the injustice of affirmative action is the indignity of it; it's demeaning character and the underhandedness...
...Mansfield: In the first place, Professor Bane, I like the pride in your statement, "I had to be better than the men against whom I competed," and that's why I think pride is the essence of this situation, more than justice. Both of you spoke of the need for diversity, and both of you, I think, spoke of equal opportunity. I think what we have to expect in America is that equal opportunity will bring diversity. The way to diversity is through equal opportunity, and not through affirmative action preference. That is our principle, it is essentially a liberal...
Colleagues describe Long as a highly disciplined leader but also a "reflective and pragmatic" man who kept an eye on political developments. One of his few friends is House Speaker Tip O'Neill. U.S. Ambassador to Japan Michael Mansfield once referred to Long as "that sailor-diplomat...
...Sunday, Reagan could reflect on a trip that seemed successful precisely because of its lack of high drama. Quiet cementing of relationships with allies lacks the theatricality and tension of crisis negotiations and the dispatching of troops and ships, but it is vitally important. U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo Mike Mansfield is fond of asserting that since the U.S. and Japan together account for a third of all economic production in the non-Communist world, their friendship is the most important bilateral relationship on the globe. And if it, and the alliance with South Korea, are singularly untroubled - well...