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Duke is right, in some measure, about his opponents' unwillingness to talk - about "his issues." Liberals have been rather cowardly about defending affirmative action. They allow caricatures of it to be attacked with impunity (even by blacks like Shelby Steele, a San Jose State University English professor) as a program for quotas, or for rewarding the unqualified rather than finding the qualified. A combination of conservative opportunism and liberal faintheartedness creates soft areas for Duke to exploit...
...illegal in about half the 50 states, including New York, Massachusetts and Michigan; enforcement of the strictures is normally a dead letter. But since there is no organized constituency to demand their repeal, the prohibitions remain as bludgeons to be picked up in marital brawls. Says Ronald Allen, a professor of law at Northwestern University: "Who wants to come out in public in favor of adultery?" Primarily, the American Civil Liberties Union, which wages a campaign against the statutes whenever they are debated...
...even find his way into Poland's pantheon of 20th century heroes, joining Walesa and Jozef Pilsudski as men who marched briskly to the tattoo of their times. "Some time will have to pass before Jaruzelski can be looked at by Poles in a completely objective way," says Professor Adam Bromke of the Polish Academy of Sciences. "But time may work to his credit...
...crackdown did not lead to witch hunts or secret trials, as the 1956 invasion did in Hungary. There was none of the petty vindictiveness of Czechoslovakia's Soviet-backed Communist clique. "He has always been a politician with bad cards who has tried to minimize the damage," says Professor Jerzy Holzar, a historian at the University of Warsaw...
...interviews this week, sources have confirmed that two more leading eduators are on the long list: 56-year-old Thomas Ehrlich '56, president of Indiana University; and Dudley R. Herschbach, 58, a Nobel laureate and Harvard's Baird professor of science...