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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION advocates rightly claim that such preferential treatment is needed to help correct long years of discrimination, abuse and neglect, to help black kids compete on even terms with the white majority. But these minority students are not taking places away only from long-established, well-off white groups--they're also taking them away from the people just above them on the societal ladder, people who have only recently "made it" and are still struggling to move up in society. These groups--Italians, Jews, Germans, Irish, others--have not tyrannized blacks for centuries or profited from the tyranny...
...poses (oddly ritualized for a "realist" work) may carry an esoteric reference to Masonry. Nevertheless, Courbet seemed a monster of high animal spirits, rooting like a boar for sustenance in the gray rocks of his native Ornans-a man of the people (in reality, the son of a well-off landowner) who never lost his country accent to the Paris salons...
...Stephen Crane seem like models of mental health. During his 48 years, Lowry wrote one extraordinary novel, Under the Volcano (1947), and spent nearly every other waking hour looking for ways to destroy himself. His search for oblivion was as successful as it was arduous. Though born to a well-off British family, Lowry was penniless ^nd drunk for most of his adulthood. He did time in jail and in mental wards; he was down and out in Mexico, New York, Hollywood and British Columbia. Even the success of his book did little to exorcise his private demons...
Though no one in the Administration is ready to cheer a yawning trade gap and a weakening dollar, Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and other top officials are by no means upset by them. They believe the best way to perk up the sluggish world economy is for the relatively well-off nations to buy more from depressed countries by either revaluing their currencies (to make imports cheaper) or expanding their economies faster (to increase demand for foreign products). The main reason for the big U.S. deficit, Treasury officials contend, is that the American economy has been growing at a much...
...creation to his fellow Democrats who control Congress-and already they are forcing some changes. The first, but probably not the last: a recasting of the President's now celebrated $50-for-everybody tax-rebate plan so that low-income people will get more than that, and the well-off will get nothing...