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...goals and timetables with quotas, presumably preferring that Blacks simply lodge individual lawsuits each time they find themselves victims of racial discrimination." In this assertion, Louis is using the "straw man" technique in double measure. First, no serious participant in the debate objects to increased efforts to recruit more minority applicants. Goals and timetables are acceptable, and even laudable, as long as no applicant's credentials are given special weight because of his or her race. In the event special weight is given, goals and timetables do indeed become indistinguishable from quotas. Second, neither do serious critics of reverse discrimination...
...dean called the problem of minority underrepresentation on the Faculty a difficult and troubling issue, but he did not advocate any change of policy. He said that Harvard just had to "stay in the game" and keep trying to recruit qualified minorities, minorities...
...driving on the Grand Central Park-way in New York City with a recruit," Muzio recalls with a big grin, retelling his favorite story yet another time. "We turned on the radio and Howard Cosell announced NYU was dropping basketball...
American bobsledders, on the other hand, are trying to recapture former glory. Until 1956 the U.S. dominated the sport, with 14 medals. But the Swiss and the East Germans have been masters of the 90-m.p.h., highly technical thrill ride in recent decades. The East Germans now recruit the cream of their summer sprinters for the event's crucial 50-meter running start. The U.S. has moved slowly to catch up. Long controlled by several venerable clubs around Lake Placid, U.S. bobsledding has become parochial and, some critics claim, possibly racist. Efforts to add speedier newcomers have prompted tensions...
...cost of the carpeted reviewing stand at Parris Island's Marine recruit depot could have provided mid-morning food supplements to 83,000 low-income children in child care centers...