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...cloaked affirmative action programs push "diversity" for its own sake rather than racial fairness. Yale asks all minority applicants to describe "the contribution your personal background would make to the diversity of the student body." Stanford, to its credit, at least restricts the scope of its program to Blacks, native Americans, Mexican-Americans and Puerto Ricans. But it prompts applicants who belong to these groups not to demonstrate how discrimination has harmed them but instead how "your ethnic/cultural background would be relevant to your law school experience and that of your classmates...
...just trying to slog our way through, doing it case by case," says U.N. spokesman Joseph Sills. "We are being asked to do jobs of greater size and scope than ever before, but we are short on manpower, short on money and short on troop contributions." The lack of resources is mainly the result of some member nations' being delinquent in paying their dues. The U.S., which pays 30% of the U.N.'s peacekeeping costs, owes $114 million to that fund and $296 million in regular U.N. dues. Russia owes a total of $400 million. Meanwhile, the cost of keeping...
...blue helmets not only have expanded operations geographically but also have broadened their scope. Prior to the Balkan crisis, the U.N. had never set out on a humanitarian mission to a war-torn country before a cease-fire was declared, but it is doing so in Bosnia. In Somalia the Security Council took the unprecedented step of approving the current U.S. military intervention to provide protection for food distribution, even though the U.N. had received no official invitation. When the two sides in El Salvador's civil war could not agree on a land-distribution plan that was crucial...
Orion Ross directs the play with a scope and insight so engaging that they could only have arisen from his clear vision of his own adaptation. That adaptation is not ideal: it attempts to maintain the original text, but important phrases are "translated" into modern English. Since the important phrases are mainly sexual slang, this sometimes leads to clumsy contrast...
...role that differs from the rest in its scope is Vindice. Tonto Silverado faces an uphill struggle with this brooding, intense character. As the central character, Vindice is less a striking caricature than a constant factor in the drama. But even Silverado gets a chance to produce a brief fantastic comic sketch like the others when Vindice impersonates an ingratiating pimp...