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...come so far, and we're certainly not going backward." Even if racial preferences are ruled unconstitutional, "people are going to find a way to do it anyway." The Congressman is quite right. Diversity has been written into the dna of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased. In fact, there is a general acknowledgment, in all but the most troglodytic precincts, that our racial diversity is a major American competitive advantage in the global economy. And so, if universities can give special preferences to students from exotic locales like...
Ordinary novelists have readers. Thomas Pynchon has decoders. Anyone who has ventured into the manic densities of Gravity's Rainbow or Mason & Dixon knows the drill. You comb through his superabundance of historical data and scientific arcana. You adjust your nerve endings to operate at his mad frequencies. Day after day you resume the steep ascent of his achievement and just hope to make camp before nightfall...
...Jerusalem's gays say that next year, they will again try to hold their rainbow-hued parade. No doubt, the ultra-Orthodox will again try to stop them. "We've chased them back into the closet," exulted one religious extremist. But Israelis gays have no intention of staying locked inside...
...With 96 percent of precincts reporting, Patrick had 56 percent of the vote to Healey’s 35. Independent candidate Christy Mihos took 7 percent, while Green-Rainbow candidate Grace C. Ross ’83 won 3 percent...
...Ford wasn't above appealing to lower instincts himself. His campaign had no problem deploying the vague rhetoric of family, in hopes of demonstrating that a Democrat could be staunch in discriminating against gays. Ultimately Ford's hope was to build a rainbow coalition, one that would unite rednecks and the ghetto in mutual homophobia. If I lived in Tennessee, I couldn't have voted for either Ford or his opponent, Bob Corker. That doesn't make the style of Ford's defeat any less disappointing. But at least it makes it poetic...