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According to Gary A. Orfield, professor of education and social policy at the Graduate School of Education, who recently helped organize a conference on affirmative action, academics have neglected to gather the research necessary to support Powell's assertions under the "strict scrutiny" that federal courts are applying to racial preferences...
...took the dreaded English A anticipatory Exam and I flunked it, a dubious start for a would-be writer. But it was a well-disguised blessing, and the strict standards of my English A section man (his face remains, his name is gone) imposed a discipline on my thought as well as my prose that I realized was overdue...
...Flinn case has enlarged the battalion of civilians who would like to meddle in the military's judicial system and its treatment of the sexes. Critics include those lambasting the adultery rules as too strict and the 119 House members co-sponsoring a bill banning mixed-sex basic training. In the end, it may be best to let the generals and admirals, exploring unknown territory, figure it out for themselves. Speaking in her personal capacity, Captain Rosemary Mariner, the Navy's first woman tactical-jet pilot and the first female commander of an aviation squadron, suggests that the approach seems...
...straight-ahead New Orleans style. But one's suspicion that the result might be dutiful and dull, the musical equivalent of a five-part series in the New York Times on wage stagnation, proves groundless. Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton rescues its idiom from both the dead end of strict revivalism and the cornier precincts of Dixieland, reinvesting it with swing and individuality and reminding us why this sensual, pleasurable music was once called "hot." What we have here, believe it or not, is 62 minutes of great make-out music. This is intended as a high compliment...
PARIS: The stunning victory by Lionel Jospin's Socialist Party over President Jacques Chirac's conservative coalition casts doubt over France's ability to meet the strict criteria for inclusion in a new European currency by 1999, reports Paris Bureau chief Thomas Sancton: "The questions are: Can they create new jobs? Can they stimulate consumption through raising purchasing power and at the same time meet the EU goals? Unless the Socialists' plans can be offset by tax increases -- and in France, taxes are the highest in Europe -- they are going to run up huge deficits. If they do that...