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...upset the promising progress being made by Khatami? The U.S. has done a lot for nations having difficulty moving into an era of openness and democracy, but it is time for the U.S. to drop its Big Brother routine and assume the role of passive bystander. Only time will mend the Middle Eastern autocracy. DANIEL FURNER Wellington, New Zealand
...games--and one highly unexpected loss--into this young Ivy League campaign, the Harvard men's basketball team will spend a weekend in New York trying to mend its ways against league doormats Columbia and Cornell...
...chose to begin conversations on race, led by an advisory board kept under its tight control. It is so tight that the board won't even have the last word: its report will be drawn up by a Clinton adviser, Christopher Edley Jr., who wrote the President's famous "mend it, don't end it" answer to critics of affirmative action...
Although something in his character allowed him to mend his ways, Cory likes to credit Youth Force with giving him new direction. "It's a place where you can dream," says Cory. "There are things that you never thought possible that you can do. I'm only 17, yet I'm having meetings with lawyers and the probation department. Windows of opportunity have opened up to me. And I can use my past experiences to help younger youth not fall like...
These civil rights groups were not alone in their reluctance to defend affirmative action as practiced in Piscataway. The Clinton Administration (leery of the abolition of a system the President had pledged "to mend, not end") had expressed hope that the consideration of the Taxman case would not include a decision on the "extraordinarily broad issue" of affirmative action. Likewise, pundits who usually enthusiastically support affirmative action shied away from this case. New York Times Columnist Bob Herbert labeled Piscataway v. Taxman "the wrong case." Herbert argued that the case was unrepresentative of affirmative action, contending that Williams was better...