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Face it, the only reason there's any public uproar over Milli Vanilli's faked singing is that 10 million people who bought "Girl You Know It's True" feel duped, suckered and ripped...
...first half into a blowout six minutes later. He did answer Harvard's best second-half rally by swishing two straight off-balance three-pointers. And he did throw down that awe-inspiring take-off-from-the-foul-line-and-fly reverse dunk that left the arena in an uproar. But those were lucky. The stiff would have been shut out if Harvard hadn't been...uh... double-teaming down low, where Coleman was held to...uh...18 points on 9-of-13 shooting...
Moreover, the idea that affirmative action is just a temporary remedy is a fraud. With every new civil rights act, like the one just attempted and soon to be reintroduced in the 102nd Congress, ethnic quotas and race consciousness become more deeply woven into American life. The current uproar over race- based college scholarships reminds us just how divisive the issue...
Hold the Phone The trustees of Washington's American University offered the school's former President, Richard Berendzen, a $1 million settlement after he pleaded guilty to making obscene calls to a female day-care worker and resigned his post. The deal caused such an uproar that a month later it was rescinded. But Berendzen still gets some $380,000 in severance pay and works as a full professor in the physics department (he's an astronomer) at about $70,000 a year...
...getting his $1 million severance package from American University after all. But everything considered, he can hardly gripe. Berendzen resigned as president of the Washington institution last April after making repeated obscene telephone calls from his office to a woman in Virginia. Last week, following a campus-wide uproar over their largesse, the trustees struck a more modest deal: Berendzen will be retained as a tenured senior physics professor at a salary "appropriate to his faculty rank," somewhere around $70,000 a year, and will begin teaching in the spring...