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- From: niepornt@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Marc Nieporent)
- Subject: Re: Affirmative action is dead
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.084106.29858@Princeton.EDU>
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- Keywords: quotas
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- References: <BzKC55.6JK@agora.rain.com> <1992Dec21.025537.4756@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 08:41:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.025537.4756@leland.Stanford.EDU> jimbo@leland.Stanford.EDU (Godfather of Soul) writes:
- >In article <BzKC55.6JK@agora.rain.com> robart@agora.rain.com (Joe Bob) writes:
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- >> The Clinton administration should provide a test of this type of policy,
- >>as he seems intent on getting a quota cabinet. He says it should look
- >>like America, but evidently he means this only in a superficial way.
- >>There will apparently be no low-income people or non-college graduates
- >>included, for example.
-
- >Yeah, that's just what we need. I hope it DOESN'T look like America
- >because it appears that most Americans want everything but don't
- >want to actually work for anything.
-
- >A Clinton quote after the "economic summit" was "We don't have all the
- >answers and we probably never will". I'm glad 43% of the American
- >electorate voted for someone who admits he doesn't have the answers.
- >I'm not sure he evens knows the question. What utter incompetence.
-
- Sigh. Another example of the failure of the American educational
- system. Reading comprehension, anyone? There's a big difference
- between "doesn't have ALL the answers" and "doesn't have the answers."
- ^^^
-
- Anyone who claims to have ALL the answers is a liar. Or a religious
- fundamentalist of some stripe. Or am I being redundant?
-
- --
- David M. Nieporent | Is it too early to start making predictions for 1993?
- niepornt@phoenix. | Probably, but that never stopped me before.
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