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...even if she dies forthwith) while Harvard classicists are still back in the middle ages translating Greek. Then there's Yale law professor Charles A. Reich (all of whose students, the Times exclaims, call him "Charley"), who reports in his book, The Greening of America (currently churning off the Random House presses at a rate of 15,000 a week), that the machinery of Corporate America is destroying itself and that we should all await with him the inevitable emergence--like grass through the cracks in the sidewalk--of a new Consciousness of love, blue jeans and rock music...
...Nazis, who come largely from working-class backgrounds and are fervent nationalists, prefer more random acts of violence aimed at creating a climate of fear and gaining publicity...
...leagues of lobbying, the pressure on Pressler sounds like a page from the beginner's guide to Washington influence. Some folks around Washington, a little more seasoned in the art of legislative enticement, can remember stories about Lyndon Johnson quoting from selected income tax returns and random FBI reports about mistresses and gambling debts...
Travelers at London's Victoria Station eyed the police posters, stray bags and packages, and each other, then warily went about their business last week. On busy central London shopping streets, young bobbies stopped shoppers at random and asked to look at their packages and shopping bags. Big department stores were also making random searches of customers' parcels and pockets. Once again the I.R.A. was exploding bombs in London in random acts of terror...
...that a fair society couldn't meet." Strict quotas and busing imply that the percentages of minorities in every school or profession should be exactly the same as those in the general population. And that, Barone says, is an unrealistic demand because "people don't distribute themselves in a random fashion." Instead, Barone thinks less rigid programs--like open housing--would offer more benefits to both the majority and minorities. Saying that "most Americans are uncomfortable with the idea of excluding anyone because of race," Barone says a renewed push to end housing discrimination would both appeal to free market...