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...their mores and lifestyle, the Afrikaners?particularly in the countryside?are as authentically tribal in outlook as Zulus living in a homeland kraal. Afrikaner society is a rigid one, held together by language (Dutch-based), faith (a fundamentalist form of Calvinism) and a sense of special mission created by their hard history. Even in the large cities, Afrikaners tend to mix uneasily with English-speaking whites. In the country, they are a law and a people unto themselves. The family structure is strong and disciplined; Afrikaner youth are far less likely than their Anglo counterparts to smoke or drink. Sunday...
...Berger's rigid interpretation, the post-Civil War Congress was dominated by "Negrophobia"; it was willing to extend to blacks rudimentary civil rights, such as equal punishment for crimes and the right to own property, but did not intend the 14th Amendment to grant them equal access to voting booths, schools, juries or jobs. Thus in Berger's accounting, when Congress enacted the provision including blacks as full citizens in apportioning House seats, it did not mean to compel the former Confederacy actually to give blacks the vote. Quite the opposite, he says: the provision meant to reduce...
ROSEN DESCRIBES in what is frequently excruciating detail the failures of the quacks to resolve the fears and anxieties of the seriously ill. He doesn't stress sufficiently, though, how many failures legitimate" psycho-analysts have had for similar reasons--perhaps because of a too-rigid theory of personality, perhaps an arbitrary and superficial diagnosis; the list is infinite...
...feel comfortable in the least with the idea of quotas, and since the federal government would never mandate schools to start using them, they don't have to worry. Furthermore, it is hardly clear that the U.C. Davis program could ever be cited as a precedent for any truly rigid, institutionalized racial quota system. For that, the school must have a fixed number of places it is required to fill each year, or else a bottom and a ceiling. The U.C. Davis program fails to fit the definition: each year of the special 16-place program the medical school also...
...unresolved. But the Supreme Court must uphold the right of the U.C. Davis special program to exist, for it appears clear that both the intent and the effect of the program has been to act according to the spirit and principles of affirmative action, rather than to mechanically impose rigid quotas. Finally, the justices should sieze the opportunity to re-educate the public with the premises, instrumentalities and continued social necessity of affirmative action-because only with a common understanding of its purpose will we be able to carry on a reasoned dialogue when these issues arise again...