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...play other sports, nor can it be conclusively said that white high school baseball coaches are not prejudiced against Black players in general and are discouraging them from playing baseball. It may be that white coaches are prejudiced against Blacks, and only when a Black player is clearly superior is he allowed to play. It is also possible that if Blacks are generally better athletes than whites, high school coaches may encourage Blacks to play football and basketball because they generally return more money to the school because of greater fan interest than baseball Since there is no evidence...
...defend his competence and ethics, he looked as though he were facing a master interrogator - say, Dan Rather when he was on CBS's 60 Minutes. Instead, Rather, now anchor of the CBS Evening News, was the co-defendant being grilled last week in a Los Angeles Superior Court chamber, in a $30 million suit for alleged defamation of a doctor at a clinic accused of insurance fraud...
...Western military planners have been preoccupied by a single goal in case of war: keeping columns of Soviet tanks and troops from reaching the heart of Europe. When the U.S. held a decisive nuclear edge, NATO threats to use battlefield nukes against the Warsaw Pact's numerically superior armies were a very effective deterrent. But the Soviets continued to strengthen both their nuclear and their conventional forces. As a result, Europeans began to be concerned that the U.S. would not use its nuclear arms to defend the Continent, for fear of provoking a Soviet counterattack against American cities. Last...
Caught in the middle of the dispute is Kent's religious superior, George Basil Cardinal Hume, the Archbishop of Westminster. He gave Kent permission to run the C.N.D., al though its activities have clearly had a political impact; Kent's position could be construed to be against the wishes of the Pope, who has warned Catholic clergy to avoid direct involvement in politics. In mid-April, Hume listed the reasons he agreed to let Kent run C.N.D.: 1) disarmament is a moral issue and Kent considered it to be a ministry; 2) the C.N.D., in the Cardinal...
Although the star's galumphing presence and endless prattling become grating, Big Bird in China is far superior to the insipid fare that constitutes most network children's programming. It offers not the contemporary China of bicycling millions but a vision of the mythic China of the imperial dynasties. Scene after scene unfolds exquisite landscapes that resemble the misty mountains and delicate waterfalls of Sung dynasty murals...