Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have been slammed for pointing out that Hill followed him to another job and invited him to speak where she was teaching, just as it is legitimate for Clinton to point out Willey's affectionate notes, her book proposal, her publicity hunt via 60 Minutes. By the same token, it was just as wrong for Thomas' critics to get hold of his video-rental records as it was for Kenneth Starr to subpoena a bookstore last week to pry into Monica Lewinsky's reading habits...
...will note that there is not yet much stable democracy. Mali is still struggling to institutionalize democratic practices, and Rawlings still runs Ghana after two questionable elections. Neither of these countries--along with Eritrea and Mozambique--qualifies as anything other than a one-party state, despite token oppositions. Many African leaders, good and bad, share Museveni's belief that real multiparty elections are a luxury these fragile states cannot afford until they have the education, the middle class, the rule of law and the firm economic base on which American-style democracy rests...
CityStep's latest adventure in toddler micro-managing promises to be particularly ticklesome and, yes, endearingly delightful, delightfully endearing: Check out the lovely and talented CityStep's Excellent Adventure show on your return from break. Along with the perennial pleasure of seeing the token wheezing kid flailing about, the whole thing's always an underrated spectacle. Who can turn down a bunch of kids enjoying themselves while a show is going on in their midst? The feat of training and rehearsals is truly stupendous and deserves some attention. Good, clean fun without a trace of smut...
...same token, we ought not stick our heads in sand and refuse to learn from the study. This is a clear reminder, if not a wake-up call, that our educational program is not tip-top. President Clinton is rightly convinced that national standards are the way out of the current mess. At a New York City fundraiser in January, the President explained his reasoning: "We cannot pretend, if we have a truly progressive vision of the future, that we can ever achieve what we want to achieve unless we hold our children--all of our children--without regard...
After one student voiced a defense of affirmative action, Rachel L. Brown '01, a self-proclaimed "token conservative," related a story about quotas at a local school...