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Finally, we could not stop wondering if Mr. Lampley had ever bounced any of his ideas about Black and gay discrimination off of any Black gay men, Black lesbians or Black bisexuals? It appeared as if he had not done so. Though it seems obvious that they could best evaluate the comparisons of Black and gay discrimination, based upon their actual experience as Black non-heterosexuals within Black communities, gay communities and within American society as a whole...
...health-care system were laid out on the operating table, its condition would be rated critical and worsening. Though the country has physicians with unsurpassed training, its health-care delivery is among the most expensive, least efficient and least equitable in the developed world. Of the industrialized nations, the U.S. ranks 17th in life expectancy and an appalling 20th in preventing infant mortality. Yet the prospect of a national health-insurance system, long advocated as a solution, alarms many doctors. They see it as an intrusion by Big Government into their professional lives -- and, perhaps more important, as a threat...
That is no substitute for leadership from the most effective lobby in the nation -- the White House -- but it looks as though the characteristically cautious Administration will not provide it. Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Louis Sullivan told the A.C.P. last week that he found its proposal "thoughtful and thoroughgoing" but that "a simple national system will not meet the needs of such a diverse group of people...
...only one example of a general "breakdown in civility" on U.S. campuses. Such is the theme of a report that will be issued this week by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, which surveyed American colleges for a year before compiling Campus Life: In Search of Community. Though the report's language is muted and scholarly, its message is loud and clear: the "idyllic vision" of college life "often masks disturbing realities," including racism, sexism, homophobia and anti- Semitism...
...itself under fire. For blacks, the trigger is often affirmative action: whatever their backgrounds or abilities, black students may find themselves viewed as beneficiaries of lowered standards. Last fall the University of Virginia accepted more than half the blacks who applied but only one-third of the whites, even though the blacks' average Scholastic Aptitude Test scores were 194 points below the whites'. At a time of rising competition, and with no sense of the past injustice that affirmative action seeks to redress, white students use such statistics as battering rams. "Affirmative action is organized governmental racism against white people...