What does Montaigne say, precisely, about making a full and affirmative accommodation with death?
The town's two black churches draw a regular crowd, and the town recently hired a full-time affirmative action officer.
Paul says it's "very affirmative and full of attitude.
One can reasonably anticipate, therefore, that colleges and universities will seek to maintain their minority enrollment -- and the networks and opportunities thereby opened to minority graduates -- whether or not they can do so in full candor through adoption of affirmative action plans of the kind here at issue.
But after more than 30 years of affirmative action, the full-time faculty will be far less varied.
Absent an understanding of this past, it's possible — even entirely reasonable — to conclude that affirmative action represents a full recompense for the social engineering that produced a disproportionately black underclass in the United States.
In a week full of other contrasts -- the Supreme Court embraced both affirmative action and gay rights, and the original Dixiecrat, Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, also died -- the state of Georgia had enough to contend with on its own.
Maybe the holistic approach takes better account of the subtle obstacles that black students face — or maybe the readers, when looking at a full application, ended up practicing a little under-the-table affirmative action.
The answer from this Friday, when SATC 2 opens, looks set to being in the affirmative (and I warn you now, this article will be full of spoilers, spoilers of both the film and your memories of the show).
Toobin points out that Thomas has come full circle — from being the victim of racism, then the beneficiary of obvious affirmative action, and, finally, loathing the preferential treatment.
