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...rightward shift on civil rights began to quicken in January, when the Justices ruled 6 to 3 that affirmative-action programs may be approved only after the strictest judicial scrutiny. The pattern became clearer two weeks ago when, by the now familiar 5-to-4 vote, the court gave large companies accused of discrimination a crucial procedural win. The Justices held that, contrary to previous doctrine, it is employees who must prove that imbalances in the racial makeup of their employer's work force result from practices that have no valid business justification. That ruling provoked a biting dissent from...
LAST week, the South African government instituted a ban on the activities of 17 political protest groups, a move that the media has called one of the strictest measures ever imposed. The ban will hit the United Democratic Front--an umbrella organization which represents over 600 community groups and labor unions--the hardest...
...form of imaginative fiction. In 1986, when Writer-Artist Frank Miller created his formidable Batman epic The Dark Knight Returns (Warner; 188 pages; $12.95), he conceived the adventure as a single narrative flow. Pictures went with the story, which was told like a movie in panels on paper. By strictest definition, that made The Dark Knight Returns a comic book, but that term, with its unfortunate suggestions of arrested adolescent development, did not accommodate either the breadth of Miller's story or the height of his ambition...
...accepting funding from the CIA, Harvard is not risking its academic freedom through association with a secret and covert wing of government. The contract has been checked and double-checked to ensure that the University's rules--the strictest in academia--forbidding censorship and requiring the publication of all results are preserved. "The contract has no leaks," said Vice President for Government and Community Affairs John Shattuck, a national authority on academic freedom and the problems of government secrecy...
Leadership is always somewhat mysterious. Ronald Reagan's leadership was fascinating. The author Garry Wills wrote, "Reagan runs continuously in everyone's home movies of the mind. He wrests from us something warmer than mere popularity. A kind of complicity. He is, in the strictest sense, what Hollywood promoters used to call 'fabulous.' We fable him to ourselves, and he to us. We are jointly responsible...