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...There it is, the old duality, the split personality of the American character. While polls show that many Americans have a renewed appreciation for traditional values, their tolerance of their neighbor's right to reject those values has not declined at all. Notes California Pollster Gary Lawrence: "More people than ever are embracing moral traditional values. But they're saying, I don't want anything to be repressed or oppressed, either...
Some say we should reject assimilation. A friend of mine questions why the newest generation of New York Jews wants to attend Harvard. If we all just went to City College like our parents did we would be in just as good an educational environment and we would not have to sell out and become part of America's dominant class and its aristocracy, he argues...
...highly popular Individual Retirement Accounts. The cost: $26 billion. New York's Republican Senator Alfonse D'Amato has proposed that the Senate make up the difference by delaying the so-called indexing that prevents taxpayers from being pushed into higher brackets. But many of D'Amato's colleagues reject the idea as highly regressive: IRAs tend to benefit upper-income groups, while indexing helps those who earn less...
...hiring of teachers within the district. "This court never has held that societal discrimination alone is sufficient to justify a racial classification," Powell said. Insisting as well that any affirmative-action plan must be "narrowly tailored" to achieve its ends, he went on to signal an inclination to reject race-based firing schemes for being too harsh on the innocent, but to look more favorably upon some hiring plans. A brief separate concurrence by Justice Byron White also stressed an aversion to layoff plans...
...treacherous interval between birth and eternity. But in the '60s, Cuomo says, he was liberated by the discovery of Teilhard's Divine Milieu (a book he has "dipped into 100 times"), in which the Jesuit propounded the philosophy that God made man to embrace the world rather than reject it. This view vindicated Cuomo's own preference for engagement with the world and confirmed his judgment that his liberal activism and commitment to social justice had both a moral and a specifically Catholic imprimatur...