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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...
...Prescott Bush, who was then a U.S. Senator from Connecticut. Bush met Dwight Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, the diplomat who riled the world by suggesting he had "to go to the brink" of war to keep peace. The President ponders a question on whether his current policy is a Dulles echo, then says, "Maybe so, maybe so. What I'm trying to do is convince Saddam Hussein that I intend to do my part in implementing the United Nations resolutions. The way to have peace is for him to understand that. I don't think...
Lamar Alexander is used to cleaning up big messes. When he walked into the Tennessee statehouse in 1979, his first chore was to sweep up after the scandal-tainted administration of his predecessor, Ray Blanton. Last week the two-term former Governor and current president of the University of Tennessee took on another big political cleanup job. President Bush asked him to become Secretary of Education and revitalize that Cabinet post after the forced resignation earlier this month of the lackluster Lauro Cavazos. One of Alexander's first priorities, however, will be to help extricate his new boss from...
...Electric distribution lines. The kind that carry current down local streets, they generate fields less powerful than those from transmission lines. But distribution line are much closer to most homes. Utilities can sometimes bury or relocate the lines...
...drawing back the Iron Curtain without bloodshed, undertaking democratic reform at home and supporting a number of U.S. policies abroad, Gorbachev has created a sort of personality cult in Western diplomatic circles. American officials claim to support policies, not politicians, but in private there is widespread fear that current Soviet policies may be inextricably linked to the current embattled Soviet leader...