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While most blacks stop short of opposing affirmative action outright, an influential few suggest that the concept needs rethinking. Outright quotas, the flash point of white opposition, are increasingly rejected as counterproductive because of how whites administer them. Says Larry Thompson, deputy general counsel of Wall Street's giant Depository Trust Co.: "Most of us who have benefited from or participated in minority recruiting would be against numerical goals and quotas because all they lead to is taking the first 10 dark faces that walk through the door instead of taking people who are qualified...
...selling well. Although the first album is better than the second, and although neither contains a song as memorable as Sweet Child o' Mine or Paradise City from the Appetite for Destruction album, both are exciting, well-produced records, with plenty of catchy rockers and only a handful of outright duds. The guitars are hot, the drumming is hot, the vocals are red-hot. Anyone who can get past the offensive lyrics will be buying one of the best rock albums of the year. Or two of them...
...scientists too must shoulder their share of the blame. Cases of outright fraud and waste, sloppy research, dubious claims and public bickering have made science an easy target for its critics. Says Marcel LaFollette, a professor of international science policy at George Washington University: "One of the threads that run through all this is a refusal by the science community to acknowledge that there is a problem. They continue with the attitude that scientists are part of the elite and they deserve special political treatment and handling...
Occasional cases involve outright judicial pique. California Superior Court Judge Bernard Kamins defied the logic of the state shield law, which bars judges from finding reporters in contempt for protecting a source, when Richard Serrano of the Los Angeles Times would not say how he got a secret report about the notorious videotaped police beating of Rodney King. In May, Kamins imposed a $1,500-a-day fine, later much reduced, claiming the punishment was not for contempt but for refusal to expose who violated Kamins' gag order...
...number of concerned observers, the busybodies -- conformity seekers, legal nitpickers and politically correct thought police -- seem to have lost sight of a bedrock American virtue: tolerance, allowing others, in the name of freedom, to do things one disagrees with or does not like, provided they do no outright harm to others...