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...binoculars! I'll be thrilled if they can get rid of it." Says this year's Miss Montana, Amanda Granrude: "We shouldn't have women in a veiled strip show." Even Leonard Horn, who runs the Miss America Organization, says, "I personally cannot rationalize it." Eager to italicize the scholarship program that gives more than $24 million a year to contestants, Horn sees the swimsuit segment as a tacky relic of Miss America's childhood...
...SPECIAL SCHOLARSHIP...
Oseola McCarty has lived most of her 87 years in a country that offered her little opportunity. Now, in her old age, she is finally spending a bit of money on herself, and has given $150,000 to a scholarship fund exclusively for black college students. Instead of congratulating her on her thrift and industry, Michael Kinsley nitpicked about reverse discrimination and quotas [ESSAY, Aug. 28]. One hears scant protest when wealthy alumni donate far greater sums to the Harvards and Yales of America for the benefit of wealthy whites. How quickly white people refer to the Constitution and equal...
...think McCarty's blacks-only scholarship is sending the wrong signal. It's not just whites who can't have the scholarship. What about the Chinese, Indians and Spanish? Blacks aren't the only ones who need financial aid. I am a 17-year-old Greek American who will be attending college in the fall. I have been awarded three scholarships for my intelligence--not for my color or my race or my sex. However, some of my friends aren't able to attend college because they just can't afford it. Instead of offering a scholarship for blacks only...
...author of Abe Fortas: A Biography (1990) and Legal Realism at Yale (1986). A third book, The Search for Community: Republicanism and the Anxiety of Legal Scholarship, has just gone to press, and a fourth, Years of Disenchantment: The United States from Ford through Bush, is currently in preparation...