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...versions that must be reconciled by conference committees next year; it is far from certain how strong the final measures will be. A law enabling students to repay college loans with volunteer national service, often listed as a success, applies to so few people that it is really only tokenism. Even the Brady bill, as enacted, has some loose ends. In the last-minute wrangling, Republicans won a token concession: they can get a vote next February on a separate bill incorporating weakening amendments -- though those amendments are pretty sure to be defeated...
Navarrette's publishers have attempted to emphasize his taste for controversy, portraying his book as a piece of Harvard-bashing literature by a sour alum. In A Darker Shade of Crimson, Navarrette criticizes Harvard for forcing him into "playing the role" of a token minority student. He also claims that the University could do more for its minority students by including adding a Chicano studies major and recognizing that Mexican-American students feel alienated in a unique...
When Morrison's Pulitzer was viewed by some as a token bestowed to appease a racial minority, a grave injustice was done a great writer. That attempt to discredit Morrison's accomplishment, though she was vindicated by being awarded the Nobel, should remind discerning readers how such concepts as affirmative action have victimized the very people they were originally intended to affirm. It is time to let go of an outdated system and give people credit based solely on merit, blind to race, by eliminating special admissions standards and token vacancies...
...same token, we have the right to denounce his testimony as irresponsible, insulting and false. Furthermore, given that Mansfield was addressing not passers by in the Square but a judge and jury which will decide whether or not Colorado gays will have rights, and given that Mansfield was speaking not merely as a private citizen but as a tenured Harvard professor whose words carry the weight of the University's implicit approval, we feel that we have an urgent responsibility to react publicly to Mansfield's remarks...
Included among "sorts of things" are token-operated bathrooms. The manager of one shop said the toilets were a security measure added before construction began...