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...artists, like most male ones, are not very talented and live ill-known in a catastrophically overcrowded art world. Thus it is easy for Ms. Anybody, M.F.A., to blame the obscurity of her work on sexist machinations against her as a member of a class and plangently call for redress in quotas and affirmative action. Hence the National Museum of Women in the Arts, a grimly sentimental waste of money, an idea whose time is gone...
None of these people are larger-than-life Jimmy Stewarts in a Frank Capra piece; rather, they are obscure citizens who felt slighted on their home patch and sought redress. As subjects, they are what crusty journalists of another age called the "little people." Forty years ago, Joseph Mitchell, the New Yorker writer, bridled at this condescension: "They are as big as you are, whoever you are." With that in mind, herewith the cases of the guitarist, Carew-Reid; the student, Cat Nguyen; and the entrepreneur, Edward Lawson...
...drugs? May American Nazis march in an Illinois suburb that is home to Jewish survivors of the Holocaust? May a man be arrested for performing a homosexual act in his own home? Is it right to promote a woman ahead of an equally qualified man in order to redress past inequities toward women...
What privacy rights apply to this vast dossier of data? When can it be searched, shared or published? And if the information it contains is outdated, injurious or just plain false, what redress does an individual have? Not much, it turns out. Ostensibly, citizens are protected from overzealous use of the Government's computer files by the Privacy Act of 1974. It requires the Government to obtain the consent of individuals if an agency collects information on them for one purpose and then uses it for another. In most cases, however, the agency merely has to publish a notice...
...court. * It is structured to focus on questions of fact and, potentially, fairness, rather than legal subtleties. Thus it offers all parties, including the public, a chance for meaningful judgment about the validity of important disputed news coverage. Still, some worry. Without litigation as an effective means of redress, warns Attorney Goodale, "pressure would build in the social system and backfire against the press...