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...vote, the journal decided merely to allow race and sex to be considered in choosing up to eight of the 48 editors. That too drew heavy fire, and the Review put the matter on hold for nearly a year. Last month the editors narrowly approved the mildest plan yet. Starting this spring, minority applicants may submit statements describing "economic, societal, or educational obstacles that have been overcome." One key clause, a piece of polished legalistic ambiguity, requires that anyone selected under the new system have grades "close to" those posted by students chosen in the usual fashion...
...bureaucratic jargon has become a fighting slogan since Lyndon Johnson made it Government policy in an Executive Order signed in 1965. The order spelled out how the Government would enforce the prohibitions against bias in employment that had been written into the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In its mildest interpretation, affirmative action merely requires an employer to attempt to recruit women, blacks, Hispanics and others for jobs usually held by white males. But courts and previous Administrations have increasingly enforced a sterner standard: employers must set numerical goals and timetables-hiring or promoting, say, five women and five blacks...
ZOBELS DROP DEAD, said the mildest of several bumper stickers that blossomed around the state. The couple was reviled on talk shows and received hate mail, bomb threats and late-night nuisance calls. After KIMO-TV Commentator Herb Shaindlin learned that Patricia, 32, was pregnant, he told his audience: "It's nice to know that Ron is doing to her what he's been doing to the rest of us." Says Patricia, who works for a highly regarded local firm: "People are so hateful without really knowing me. It affects everything I do, from writing checks...
Walesa takes criticisms of his contradictory manner in stride. He sees himself as a peacemaker among Solidarity's moderate and radical factions. Says he: "My job is to unite them. I scale down the militants and raise up the mildest...
...result bodes well for the oars-women's prospects. Cornell fell but a few seats short of upsetting a Yale boat ravaged by graduation, but failed to pose even the mildest threat to Radcliffe. Last year, Yale topped the Black and White in a regular season matchup, and then copped the Eastern Sprints title...