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Signs of separation persist in the city's neighborhoods, nightclubs, gazes and words. A perspiring black man, nattily dressed in suspenders, white shirt and a hat, pushes a mower across a lush lawn just yards from the elite, whites-only Greensboro Country Club. Downtown, as professionals head home at night from glistening glass office buildings, an army of blacks -- so-called invisible people -- arrives to empty the trash and vacuum the floors. One leading white liberal lapses, unconsciously perhaps, into talk about "coloreds" and "black boys...
...control, to marry before the age of 20, and men cannot take a bride until they are at least 22. But relatively few are waiting that long to have sex. Fully 86% of those who answered Liu's survey said they approved of premarital sex. Such liberal attitudes often persist after marriage as well. A surprising 69% of the people surveyed saw nothing wrong with extramarital affairs...
Informal ties between Harvard and ROTC persist despite the Faculty's decision 21 years ago to oust the institution from campus. Harvard allows non-Harvard ROTC students to use the University's athletic facilities for training purposes, and Harvard students can participate in special ROTC graduation ceremonies on the Harvard campus. This despite the military's avowed policy of denying entrance to gays and lesbians and despite the University's official policy of not recognizing organizations that discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation...
However, many students say this apparent goodwill belies dissatisfaction, adding that old tensions persist...
Unfortunately, being stamped "made in America" does not always connote the quality or garner the respect that it once did. However, I am loathe to think that we should continue to allow systematic targeting resulting in the demise of U.S. industries to persist, while the door to the Japanese market is welded shut to non-Japanese competition. For example, the construction industry in Japan is a feudalistic fiefdom, closely working with the Japanese government to exclude foreign competition. For the protection it receives, it liberally lines the coffers of Japanese politicians...