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...practical value in a battle zone with blazing sun and few trees or buildings for cover. Los Angeles Times correspondent David Lamb, 50, who also reported from Vietnam between 1968 and 1970, described the fitness hurdle to his editors as "a blatant violation of my constitutional rights, but the correct thing to do" Some journalists asked whether civilian and military officials on inspection tours would face the same rule. Pentagon officials eventually conceded that they had gone overboard and withdrew the test, but said they would still expect correspondents to be fit enough to cope with the desert...
Second, we find out what politically correct means. Kilson doesn't use the term, of course, but he gives us to understand that it is okay for certain groups to accuse others of racism or sexism. This is "inclusionary or pluralistic." If others try to defend themselves, however, that is "anxiety...
...Politically correct" is the result, necessarily arbitrary, of politicization. No one need be, or will be, tolerant of diverse opinions if he or she begins by denying the good faith in which they are offered. Instead of true diversity, therefore, we shall have the false, so-called "diversity" in which everyone believes the same, politically correct, thing...
Fastest Rush to the Mainstream Rap music began as something def from the ghetto, got sanitized by b-boys like M.C. Hammer and Vanilla Ice, and quickly became a we're-so-hip cliche even on TV commercials. As they say, it's not comin' correct...
...nation is in a serious downturn. Bush advisers say the economy will show negative growth for the fourth quarter at an annualized rate of nearly 3%. Says a senior analyst: "Chances are better than fifty-fifty that the first quarter of 1991 will be negative too." If that proves correct, the economic contraction would fit the generally accepted definition of a recession. Despite the bad news, the White House does not plan to change its wait-and-see attitude. "Nobody here or up on Capitol Hill has anything in their bag of tricks to help the economy right now," says...