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Glazer, author of the 1975 work Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy, said that because Asian-Americans have already gained significant representation in many prestigious professions, it is unnecessary to include them in programs designed to target minorities. In support of his position, Glazer said that while Blacks constitute about 12 percent of the U.S. population, they make up only 1.8 percent of American medical school faculties; Asian-Americans, at about 2 percent the population, make up 7.5 percent...
...system that practiced pick- a-number pricing, taught enterprises to hoard inventory and rewarded them for producing a million left shoes. As Mikhail Gorbachev is discovering, it is much easier to learn to use political freedoms than to revive a moribund command economy. Casting secret ballots, speaking up in public, banding together to advance common interests: all these come fairly naturally. Instilling entrepreneurial spirit and managerial efficiency on any level higher than selling lemonade at curbside is a lot harder. Eastern Europe is littered with the wreckage of previous attempts at economic reform...
...next thing, usually, is to round up a few experts to say what it all means. Too often, what gets experts quoted -- and called again the next time news relates to their specialty -- is not specific knowledge of a case but crisp, piquant opinion. The expert enjoys the publicity; the journalist enlivens a story. The losers are the public, who get ill-informed speculation masquerading as analysis, and the news subjects, who are assessed in intimate, knowing terms by strangers...
Krenz, almost pleading for credibility, faced an uphill struggle as popular demands for a reckoning grew. In East Berlin a government television team entered the so-called "forbidden city" of Wandlitz, situated on a lake outside Berlin, to show the public how the elite, including Krenz, had lived in luxury, enjoying servants, limousines and imported Western delicacies -- a life-style totally removed from the generally spartan existence of most East Germans. The compound is surrounded by a wall; no photographs of it have been published until now. Krenz moved from Wandlitz to a small apartment in East Berlin...
Though Hatch and Sullivan deny that any deal was made at their meeting, three names on the Hatch list have got high department posts: Constance Horner, the department's Under Secretary; James O. Mason, Assistant Secretary for Health; and Kay James, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs. A fourth, former Hatch staffer Antonia Novello, is the White House nominee to succeed C. Everett Koop as Surgeon General...