TEXAS FINDS A CREATIVE WAY TO RETAIN DIVERSITY
Critics call Texas' new state university admissions law some kind of a sneaky backdoor way to get around last year's federal court ban on admissions based on race. Of course,...
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ABORTION FOES LET POLITICS CLOUD THEIR VISION
Some people don't know a good thing when they see it. Abortion opponents in Congress could have had a major victory, a complete national ban on almost all late-term abortions....
IT’S TIME FOR A REALITY CHECK IN THE AIR FORCE
In the end, the Air Force's biggest mistake may have been in charging Lt. Kelly Flinn with adultery. After all, they had stronger charges to work with, charges that would...
A TV GUEST WHO OVERSTAYED HER WELCOME
I was surprised to hear "Roseanne" was ending. For me, it ended a long time ago. I was not alone. You could see the pending doom in the ratings. In...
SO, WHAT ELSE CAN YOU DO, DEEP BLUE?
A lot of people were upset that Deep Blue, IBM's supercomputer, beat Garry Kasparov, world chess champion. Not me. I'm delighted that a computer has beat the human league's top...
THE JOURNEY BEYOND
When Rachel Robinson was asked at the National Press Club on May 13 what she thought of the young black ball players who said they hadn't heard about the struggles...
WELFARE REFORM: SO FAR IT’S WORKING OUT
It is the type of story that warms a welfare reformer's heart. Faced with a looming loss of her benefits, an unmarried Green Bay mother found the first job outside...
AN UNINFORMED CODE OF MILITARY INJUSTICE
Some of the military's worst sex scandals recently have grown out of its efforts to avoid sex scandals. Just ask Air Force Lt. Kelly Flynn, the first woman to fly...
A FOND FAREWELL TO A TALENTED FORMER NEIGHBOR
A young editor at one of the hundreds of newspapers that ran Mike Royko's column lamented his death last week. Her newspaper would have a tough time replacing him, she...
A NATIONAL SUPPORT SYSTEM
The first thing I found out when I arrived at the President's Summit for America's Future, also known as the summit on volunteerism, was that I had come to the...