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...government regulation ignores what he sees as the central role of "experience, judgment, and informed intuition [rather than of] logical demonstration" in education, he also believes that universities have failed to meet their social obligation to guide public policy makers: "Beneath these complaints [of government officials about higher education spokesmen's attitudes to Washington] lies a deeper concern. The quality of government regulation does not depend simply on the intelligence and judgment of public officials but on the adequacy of the information and advice that these officials receive to assist them in their work. According to many critics, higher education...
...Several spokesmen for Moon's organization who declined to give their names said yesterday the conference will be held Thanksgiving weekend in Washington, but said they could not give details about the planned meeting...
...Harvard community who feel that affirmative action is an unjust, racist and sexist practice and I would like to thank Mr. Ferrara for speaking out on our behalf. It is all too easy to let oneself be intimidated by the moralistic self-righteousness of minority-group spokesmen who angrily contend that affirmative action is the only way to end supposed biases in school admission and hiring policies. Clearly, affirmative action is a blatant form of racism, no less reprehensible than that practiced by right-wing extremists such as the Ku Klux Klan. It is just as despicable, unfair, and undesirable...
When McDonald's executives contest the charges of restriction of consumer choice and cultural imperialism, Boas and Chain give them enough rope to hang themselves. Company spokesmen point out, for example, that the McDonald's in London serve tea, and that advertisers in Japan, out of deference to the Japanese tongue, changed Ronald McDonald's first name to Donald. To those who feared a forest of golden arches across the land, President Turner once replied that "uninterrupted scenery, too, can get pretty monotonous...
Some civil rights spokesmen were quick to hail the decision as a landmark in the long fight to get the suburbs to share in solving the problems of the cities they surround. Margaret Bush Wilson, chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, called the finding "historic, bold and necessary to halt the constitutional movement in this country toward apartheid. " But other leaders of minorities, noting the extremely limited nature of the precedent and knowing the long court battles that almost certainly lay ahead, were much more guarded. "I'm pleased...