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Ronald Reagan is not necessarily doomed to repeat the dispiriting pattern of failure that has hounded too many recent Presidents. If the Iran-contra scandal has left many Americans uneasy about Reagan's grip on his job, last week's performance demonstrated that the still popular President retains at least some of his powers. But if he is to recoup, he will have to resist his tendency to rely on theatrics rather than hard work. As the President and the First Lady departed for Camp David last week, Reagan cheerfully bantered with a group of young supporters. Talking about...
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...
Americans, he continued, voted in 1968 to enter a "holding pattern." But if they remained afraid to break with their past, Wills warned that Americans would have to resist...
...agree. Rocked in recent years by booster-infected scandals, including rumors of alumni-paid prostitutes entertaining prospective athletes, the NCAA recently banned all alumni contact with high school athletes--unless all applicants are treated the same. In other words, an alumnus who recruits an athlete must also show a pattern of recruiting dozens of other students...
Unlike the pattern of the first two games, the score in the third game was tied six times--at four, six, eight, nine, 12 and 13--and the lead never exceeded three points...