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...less pessimistic. "The fact that the crimes have decreased over the past few months is positive," he says quietly. He confirms that the armed forces have asked the church to send priests to visit military command posts and give talks on human rights to soldiers and officers. "The origin of the revolution has its roots in tremendous social injustice. The violence will not disappear until that injustice is reduced." Monsignor Rivera y Damas does not possess the charisma of Monsignor Romero, but beneath his affable air and sleepy eyes, he is extremely shrewd. Many say that he has managed...
...foods as eggs and organ meats and most cheeses can directly add to the level of potentially harmful LDL. Fat has an even bigger impact, although the reasons are not well understood. Saturated fat tends to raise LDL levels. Butter, bacon, beef, whole milk, virtually any food of animal origin is high in saturated fat; so are two vegetable oils: coconut and palm. Polyunsaturated fats, which are typically of vegetable origin, have the opposite effect; thus corn, safflower, soybean and sesame oils tend to lower the level of potentially dangerous LDL. Fish oils do the same. In the middle...
...that seems like a peculiar notion, but one has to read the proposed ordinance to see just how peculiar it is. The city council proposed banning "discrimination... based on race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, including...
...American life. And second, the air is filled with accusations of racism, or sexism, or ageism, or some other - "-ism," and this poisons the atmosphere. Affirmative action makes that kind of accusation institutional and routine. A third objection I have is that affirmative action has been widened from its origin in the Civil Rights Act to include groups like women. Hispanics, and others who haven't suffered in any way comparable to Blacks. Blacks, I think, really are a special case. That there are other injustices to other groups in society is undoubtedly true, but they are nothing like...
Contemporary affirmative action programs have long been based on looking back to the historical process of American institutionalized racism and sexism, which are known as "problem-remedy" solutions. In 1981 the Civil Rights Commission defined affirmative action as "active efforts that take race, sex, and national origin into account for the purpose of remedying discrimination." The underlying rationale for affirmative action is that discrimination can be overcome only by an explicit consideration of an individual's background. But such a system, charge critics of affirmative action, only constitute another form of racism or "reverse discrimination...