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...every four years to monitor the system. A formal report isn't due until May, but Senate hearings on the council's recommendations begin this week anyway. Split on the specifics, the 13-member panel is nonetheless unanimous on the need for radical change. "If we stick to the plain old pay-as-you-go system, we'll have to raise taxes or cut benefits," says the group's chairman, Edward Gramlich, dean of the University of Michigan's public-policy school. "Either way, the system becomes an even worse deal for young people...
...blunt and remarkably plain language, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declared that the University of Texas law school could not use different admission standards for minority students than it does for white applicants. The court's decision was a frontal assault on the current law of the land--embodied in the Supreme Court's 1978 Bakke decision--which prohibits quotas but allows schools to consider race as a factor in college applications...
...JUST PLAIN CURTISY...
Some of the faithful will have to be content with the catalog, which was published last week. It is a thick paragon of low-intensity salesmanship: plain cream cover, small gray type, no objet d'art staring from it--which is only proper, since what Sotheby's is selling is spiritual contact. Some 100,000 copies are available, at $90 (hardback) and $45 (soft). This print run will probably take care of the cost of the color plates, which are many and which reproduce such treasures as Lot 924, "A Set of Six French Stoneware Butter Pots, Modern," estimate...
Carter tries to extricate himself from the swamps of moral relativism by postulating that some ideas are, after all, just plain evil, and as examples of such genuine, integrity-destroying evil, he offers racism and genocide. Thus the Nazi operative couldn't be a man of integrity, no matter how much "discerning" he engages in, because genocide is just, well, over the top. But evil, in Integrity, seems a pretty makeshift deus ex machina. If, for example, racism is such a self-evident no-no, then why not sexism--including any attempt to restrict women's reproductive choices...