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...case of one Harvard applicant I met while on vacation in Montana, trying to impose the affirmative action model is absurd. I arrive at our meeting wearing a herringbone grey jacket from Brooks Brothers and accompanying dress slacks (Harvard taking its toll?) and he in a flannel jacket, a Wrangler button-clasp shirt and tight boot-cut jeans. The applicant comes from a ranch in the outlying area; his family raises Angus steers, and we talk for a little while about mad cow disease, about which he is extremely well-informed. Even with the mad cow scourge (which is really...
...typical geographic “disadvantage,” in the lingo of affirmative action, is bald-faced. Montana, for instance, still has about 100 one-room schoolhouses where the educator is a teacher, counselor and principal all-in-one. These schools struggle to meet basic accreditation standards, much less offer “AP courses,” or a full regiment of math and science. And SATs? Pretty much out of the question without a 100-mile drive...
...exactly a mirror of the country it defends. It is better educated than the general population and overweighted with working-class kids and minorities. About 40% of the troops are Southern, 60% are white, 22% are black, and a disproportionate number come from empty states like Montana and Wyoming. When they arrive at the recruiter's door, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told TIME, "they have purple hair and an earring, and they've never walked with another person in step in their life. And suddenly they get this training, in a matter of weeks, and they become part...
...part of my purpose here. WHY SOUTH AFRICA? I am drawn to South Africa because of Nelson Mandela, who has become a personal friend, and my love of the country. I think that for every act of generosity in the world, regardless of where it is given--in Mississippi, Montana or Mozambique--it's O.K., because it's spreading that kind of energy out into the world in a way that can make a difference...
...after all, it wouldn’t take place in Montana...