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...Detroit, a federal judge threw out a voluntary quota system adopted by the Detroit Police Department. Since 1974, in making promotions to the rank of sergeant, officials have skipped over some 200 white officers who had ranked higher than black officers on promotional eligibility lists, primarily on the basis of an exam. At one point, 29 new white sergeants were chosen in strict numerical rank from the top of a 298-man promotional eligibility list; then a matching group of blacks was promoted. Among the new black sergeants, the highest-ranking was 36th; the others ranged as far down...
Garp himself begins in an act of highly spiced imagination. During World War II, his mother, Nurse Jenny Fields, climbs into bed with a ball-turret gunner who has been lobotomized by a piece of flak. The gunner, Technical Sergeant Garp, dies shortly afterward, leaving only the initials of rank for his son's first name. For Jenny, her one and only sexual experience is a calculated insemination consistent with her independent nature. As she writes in A Sexual Suspect, the autobiography that makes her famous, "I wanted a job and I wanted to live alone. That made...
...because of his ability to reason, meant to increase his chances of survival any way he can? Cloning could be used to duplicate Einsteins and Bruce Jenners. But it could also be used for less admirable purposes; entire armies could be cloned from some red-faced marine sergeant, or how about a television show called "Charlie's Clones" featuring 50 Farrah Fawcett-Majors...
...letter is signed by Mark Draymore and Randy Swaggerty, identified as chairman and secretary of the committee, respectively, and offers the package of assorted foods for $7.48. Sergeant Richard Smith, of the Criminal Investigation Unit, said yesterday that neither 'Draymore nor Swaggerty are Harvard students...
Smith and Sergeant Edward Greene said yesterday they were checking with postal authorities to determine the validity of the offer...