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...paramount concern remains the enormous gap in wealth and power between whites and blacks. Whites still control most of the principal institutions of South African society: the corporations, the banks, the stock exchange, the media and the civil service. While Mandela has urged a color-blind society and railed against "reverse racism," whites mutter about blacks taking jobs they are not qualified for. Whether blacks have the right curriculum vitae does not really matter: affirmative action in some form is imperative and inevitable. In South Africa, unlike in America, disenfranchised blacks make up the great majority of the population...
...been as elaborate as those of the empires that preceded them. So when Chen Yun died at 89 last Monday, the citizens of Beijing braced themselves for the usual run of lowered flags, martial music, and long paeans to his revolutionary contributions. After all, Chen ranked second only to Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping in China's pantheon of post-Mao leaders, and the two were often viewed as fierce rivals...
...setting out to solve a paramount contemporary American conflict, Lerner and West take on a heavy burden. Unfortunately, both attack the problem with a hostile pessimism through which they call for socialist revolution. The workers of the world might be more equal under a socialist regime, but that does not imply material comfort and therefore it certainly fails to correspond with racial harmony...
...foreign ownership remained a sensitive issue among Murdoch's attorneys long after the FCC's initial approval. A memo dated June 5, 1990, from Michael Gardner, a Washington attorney who managed Murdoch's original application, calls Fox's ownership structure "arguably vulnerable to challenge." He warns that it is paramount" to avoid any change that "would potentially invite re-examination" by the commission...
Discarding science threatens the very life of each and every one of us. Beyond the noble cause of finding truth, science plays a very important practical role in our lives. Staying ahead in terms of technology (Which relies on scientific research) is of paramount importance for the economy...