Word: tokenized
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...said of the Signet Society: "I found a group of token women, myself included, expected to enjoy the exist humor of a traditional stag club...
...American government has no right to distinguish between those refugees who are "qualified" to become U.S. citizens, and those who aren't, between acceptable groups and unacceptable ones. Some of the prostitutes Sen. Byrd feels are "undesirables," for example, became prostitutes precisely because of the war. By the same token, refugees cannot be judged by criteria which separate their politics and actions from the American policies that directed them. The Vietnamee police is one group liable to rejection by the U.S. Their functions included interrogation, torture, and imprisonment of communists and political dissidents--and they were trained and supported...
Privately, Minh and his advisers admit that elections may never take place. They would thus accept a government consisting of Communists, neutralists and token anti-Communists that would undoubtedly be dominated by the pro-Communist P.R.G. Nobody in Minh's camp believes that the Communists can be denied the lion's share of power, but a few believe that a political settlement will enable the non-Communists to exert some influence. "You can hope to have a solution that will give an opportunity to the non-Communist side to prepare for a new life," says a Minh adviser. "Forming...
...Trustees and Radcliffe administrators are still leery of equal access without true commitment to coeducation and have been careful to make it clear that they expect more than just token increases in women faculty and administrators to accompany equal access...
That's significant, because it reflects an interesting mood in Louisville this week. Nobody disputes the fact that John L. Greer's Foolish Pleasure is the horse to best this weekend, but by the same token no one is taking that victory for granted. In fact, the expectation is that Saturday's classic run at Churchill Downs will be just that: a spectacular horse race...