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Kevin M. Malisani's March 8 opinion piece, "Coping with the Conservative Club," is a classic example of the intolerant complacency of Harvard's Liberal Establishment. Time and again Harvard liberals have shown the entire world that they're quite happy debating among themselves--but Heaven forbid that somebody speak out and challenge their views! The problem does not lie with the speakers that come to Harvard, but with the audience that they find here...
...political ramifications that City leaders fear most of all. Though the affair involves complex financial transactions that are little understood by the general public, the scandal could sting the Tories, who are running neck and neck with the Labor Party in opinion polls. "Watergate was amazingly complex, and people didn't follow the minute details," says Peter Kellner, political columnist for the liberal New Statesman magazine. "But there came a time when it wasn't the detail that mattered, but the general stink...
Writing the lead opinion, however, Justice William Brennan maintained that the Alabama troopers' discrimination was "pervasive, systematic and obstinate." That pattern, he said, "created a profound need and a firm justification for the race-conscious relief." In the past the court has looked with favor only on affirmative-action plans that minimize penalties to the innocent, but the harm to white officers in this case, wrote Brennan, was limited to the time necessary to achieve the integration goal and so "only postpones the promotions of qualified whites...
...always in affirmative-action cases, the court was sharply divided. Brennan's opinion was joined by Justices Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun and Lewis Powell. Justice John Paul Stevens provided the fifth vote, but in a separate, seemingly more sweeping opinion stressed that in cases of proven discrimination, judges have "broad and flexible authority to remedy the wrongs...
...TOWER COMMISSION Report does not criticize President Reagan or his foreign policy apparatus nearly as much as the Majority Opinion suggests. In fact, the report accurately places most of the blame on the inadequacies of Reagan's advisers...