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...racial-speech code at the University of Michigan, along with analogous flaps at Howard, Duke and Harvard. But he rarely transcends his material; the writing is earnest, the details repetitive and the analysis predictable. Many of the best quotes and anecdotes in Illiberal Education turn out to be secondhand prose. A pivotal paragraph that argues that affirmative action lowers the self-esteem of black students is buttressed not by firsthand interviews but merely by citations from newspaper articles...
...still has staying power. While publicly vowing to maintain Marxist purity, Castro has allowed a number of perestroika-style reforms in the Cuban economy. Among them: linking farm-worker pay to the amount workers produce. The island has signed a $350 million trade deal with Mexico and may reap secondhand benefits when that country completes a long- debated free-trade agreement with...
...military, the question of who armed Saddam Hussein is hardly academic. They know that France sold Iraq the Mirage F-1 jet fighter as well as its armament, the Exocet missile, which could be launched with deadly effect against allied ships. Egypt provided many of the artillery pieces and secondhand, Soviet- built tanks that imperil allied soldiers on the ground. And the U.S. encouraged other nations to supply the sophisticated aircraft, advanced armored vehicles and other weaponry that threaten coalition soldiers. "It angers me," says 1st Lieut. Alan Leclerc, a U.S. Marine pilot who flies daily sorties into Iraq...
Most Endangered Species Cigarette smokers found themselves all but squeezed out of socially respectable circles. More restaurants quarantined smokers to tiny sections. Businesses ordered that cigarettes be left at home. Smoking was banned on virtually all domestic airline flights and on interstate buses. And the risks of secondhand fumes puffed the anti-smoking chorus to an implacable roar...
...Brunswick, Maine native added that he is looking forward to seeing Harvard athletes play on a week-to-week basis, instead of just hearing about their feats secondhand...