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...paraplegic is part of an effort by special-interest groups to make all suffering equal so that all remedies will be. It is a trend that would make the college student who is insulted by a racial joke comparable to James Meredith barred at the door of Ole Miss; rape by a spouse as terrorizing as rape by a stranger with a knife in a dark alley; a Playboy calendar on the wall as detrimental on the job as a supervisor who takes away the duties of a clerk who has rebuffed his advances...
This summer, it was my father who suggested leaving mom and sis behind and hitting the open road to California. I've never thought of his vacations as pinnacles of excitement. Whether the fulfillment of a lifelong goal like seeing the Grand Ole Opry and the house of Conway Twitty, or going to deserted beaches where the newsstand stocks six national newspapers, they have always seemed to me interminal and boring...
...ended up on history's dustheap. In New Orleans, for example, Jefferson Davis Elementary has become Ernest N. Morial Elementary, named after the city's first black mayor. Two weeks ago, the New Orleans City Council voted to dismantle the Liberty Monument, a granite obelisk to white supremacy. The Ole Miss faculty in Oxford, Mississippi, passed a resolution seeking to end the playing of Dixie at school events. In Memphis, Tennessee, black activists may soon try to remove from a city park the bronze statue of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan...
Someone fetch me my smelling salts! The Crimson has bumbled yet again, this time making little 'ole me crimson both in rage and embarrassment: In the May 19th issue, Mr. Stephen Frank wrote a story whose eye-catching headline proclaimed: "HDS Food Safety is Questioned: Cook Died of AIDS." This tabloid-like text reeks of the spirit of the illustrious Mr. Hearst who, as we all know, had a particular penchant for yellow--journalism, that...
Kantor, 53, was born in Nashville, Tennessee, where his family ran a furniture store near one of the sites of the Grand Ole Opry. He became a star shortstop on the baseball squad at Vanderbilt, and served four years in the Navy before studying law at Georgetown. While at the Los Angeles law firm of Manatt, Phelps, he helped elect politicians in the city and state and then represented clients -- including Occidental Petroleum and Lockheed -- in their dealings with government. He has usually supported liberal Democrats with strong ties to corporate interests: Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, former Vice President...