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...prayer. So it seemed a safe bet that his 4-1/2-month review of federal affirmative-action programs would end with a decision aimed at placating "angry white males" opposed to racial preferences. Instead, in a speech last week, Clinton delivered an unequivocal endorsement of affirmative action. His message: "Mend...
...ensure that they benefit those who really need help. He promised a careful search for a "middle ground" that preserves many race-and-sex-based preferences in federal programs while eliminating abuses and inequities. Addressing an audience at the National Archives, Clinton said: "We should have a simple slogan: mend it, but don't end it." Making a start, the President directed federal departments to end or revamp any program that "creates a quota, creates preferences for unqualified individuals, creates reverse discrimination or continues even after its equal opportunity purposes have been achieved." Though popular Republican attacks on quotas clearly...
...administration officials were hoping to mend some fences with gay and lesbian elected officials at a meeting Tuesday, after alienating them last week with the Justice Department's decision to stay out of a Supreme Court case on gay rights. Instead, the White House must now apologize all over again. The officials at the meeting -- including state senators and representatives, city council members and judges -- say some of the Secret Service agents present wore rubber gloves, apparently trying to protect themselves from being infected by the HIV virus. "It's safe to say the chief of staff (Leon Panetta...
...proverb goes, "It's never too late to mend." McNamara is still the man. We would never expect him to come out to face contempt and criticism. And, rationally speaking, it makes little sense to go all the way back to that tumultuous period with the same indignation felt by the whole nation 20 years...
Keeping incidents quiet provides an offender with a second chance, an opportunity to repent and mend his ways without attracting the scorn of the rest of the student body. Finally, the unavailability of "dirt" on other students ensures that political campaigns and heated debates do not sink beyond a certain level of decency. What do you think the U.C. presidential election would look like if, say, Randall A. Fine '96 had access to potentially embarrassing information about his opponents' pasts...