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...President Reagan gets the opportunity to replace a couple of liberal Justices with conservatives, the court may finally move to outlaw racial preference. "The Stotts ruling is the first piece in the puzzle," says Vanderbilt University Law Professor Thomas McCoy. "These changes at the Supreme Court and the Cabinet level will eventually be seen as the first pieces in the dismantling of affirmative action...
Still, as McCoy notes, there is "a very deeply ingrained sentiment--almost a conditioned reflex--in society that we do owe something to the victims of discrimination, and to the heirs of the victims as well." Regardless of any decrees handed down by Supreme Court Justices or Cabinet officers, affirmative action has permeated personnel offices and public bureaucracies. It may be difficult to frame precise formulas to cure past discrimination without discriminating anew. Yet many employers have begun to feel their way to a commonsense approach, trying to hire and promote minorities and women wherever possible without discriminating against white...
...times been carried away by tides of patriotism and even chauvinism. ABC reporters have unabashedly rooted for U.S. competitors and given short shrift to the athletes of other nations. The expert commentators, almost all of them former U.S. Olympians, have been particularly prone to this. Gymnast Cathy Rigby McCoy, for example, repeatedly implied that the U.S. women gymnasts had been cheated of the team gold medal by judges who favored Rumania or China...
Electronic wizardry is, of course, no better than the people who control it, and ABC's reportage, although wide, has been less than deep. Gymnastics Commentators Rigby McCoy and Kurt Thomas repeatedly tossed off the names of movements (Tsukahara, Strelli and Hecht) without using pretaped footage to define them. Swimming Commentator Mark Spitz was only occasionally instructive; although shorter races are often won in the turns, neither he nor ABC's cameras demonstrated what makes a turn effective. Track Commentator O.J. Simpson added little to what viewers saw, although onetime Olympian Marty Liquori aptly explained pacing...
...week deadlines are very rough," admits the author, who has holed up, luxuriously enough, in Southampton, L.I., for his summer labors. The plot of his periodic potboiler revolves around a Jewish New York City mayor faced with civil and racial strife and a famous nonfiction writer named Sherman McCoy who resides in Manhattan. Wolfe insists he is keeping "the line between fiction and nonfiction very clear." But in the early going, the real McCoy seems quite familiar. "If you noticed what the guy was wearing you'd know it wasn't me," argues Wolfe. "The thought of leaving...