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Walter Williams, a professor of economics at George Mason University in Virginia, cited the medical school as an example of the reverse discrimination he says is advocated by President Clinton's Secretary of Health and Human Services, Donna E. Shalala...
Williams, a commentator for NPR, said the movement to promote racial diversity is hypocritical. He said Shalala, the former chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has acted with other college presidents to discriminate against white students and contribute to a "new racism...
...Among his most fundamental campaign pledges, one that helped to define him as a "New Democrat," was the promise to "end welfare as we know it," but welfare reform fails to appear in the top five priorities of either Clinton or Donna Shalala, his designated Secretary of Health and Human Services...
...State. Sure, there have been a few wrong calls -- Carol Browner, and not former Vermont Governor Madeleine Kunin, was named to head the Environmental Protection Agency. There were also surprises -- almost no one predicted that Robert Reich would end up as Secretary of Labor, and few slated Donna Shalala for Secretary of Health and Human Services. Democratic national chairman Ronald Brown seemed headed for the United Nations, not Commerce. Like Brown, both Reich and Shalala were leaked as likely prospects for top jobs...
...vacant Senate seat. Some in the Clinton camp fear that the two transition teams doing background checks may be the source of some leaks. The vetters are given the names of the nominees but not their positions. That may help explain why the press mistakenly speculated that Shalala, the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin, was headed for the Department of Education...