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...that new nation is still -- deliberately -- undefined. But one phrase is firmly inked in: "group rights," De Klerk's code name for the preservation of white privilege. In South Africa, when whites talk about "minority rights" they mean the protection of white power and wealth, and when they refer to "the tyranny of the majority" they mean black rule. De Klerk's so-called multiracial state does not denote racial integration but a system in which each race will have its own rights and freedoms -- one of those being the right to live in a white enclave. Just as much...
Your readers might be interested in a few facts and figures concerning income distribution which demonstrate how different the reality of American society is from the impressions on which most contemporary public discourse is based. The following figures refer to 1987, but very little has changed since then...
...favorite letters in Ithaca, N.Y., thesedays are B.J., and they don't refer to rock starBilly Joel. Center Bernard Jackson lost 30 poundsduring the course of the non-Ivy schedule lastyear and led a resurgent Cornell team tosix wins in its final eight games, including atwo-game sweep of Penn...
...Trabi traffic jams every weekend as East Germans drive in for shopping. A study by Berlin's Technical University has shown that Trabants spew roughly nine times as many hydrocarbons and five times as much carbon monoxide as most other cars in Western Europe. Though some West Germans refer to the Trabi's distinctive mix of gas and oil smoke as "the smell of freedom," others are more direct. They call the Trabi the "little stinker...
...problem. "I do think that there's a kind of national illness, and I think that every American is touched by it," he says. "It's a by-product of this 20-year wave of narcissism and self-help movements and stuff where people have lost the ability to refer to things larger than themselves, and their reward is solitude. It penetrates Montana as thoroughly as it penetrates Manhattan...