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sixth day of 1998. There are 359
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plane to make a round-the-world " aniLann Lee is a talented attor- . In a world in which echoodis So why are we letting feminists impose sexual equity on an area that
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Bush married Barbara Pierce in COPLEY NEWS service of personal integrity. But he is also contractsbased on the com- military? , : -
Rye N.Y. WASHINGTON- How Bill a political partisan, dedicatedt 0 plexion of the bidders, he is unable According to a report by my colleague James Anderson, a former professor
in 1967, U.S. Marines and South Clinton loves to talk. Itshouldaome imposing hisracs-consciousvisin to cite a single preference that he Marinecorps University in Quantico, Va., the military, by training male
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Operation Deckhouse V, an But h appointment of Bill Lann Lee opinions of the courts. He sees every- Const f tior Renublic: “It’s so women can compete with men. In the process, men are g
offensive in the Mekong River as acting assistant attorney gen- thing through a racial prism. , loid the conclusion that into the hardened warriors we need to defeat an enemy. This is every bi
delta. eral for civil rights shows that the He argues that California' Lee"represents the least nuanced stupid as allowing women to play pro football and making the players play
in 1994, figure skater Nancy president really prefersaamono- Proposition.209, wbichbansrtis tendencies of liberal racialism.". “easy” so the women won’t get hurt. The reason we don t do this, as I said
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by an assailant at Cobo Arena in entitlement. Comsntattnn Mr. Lee doesn’t belidi Jeriu? b u a we aden h in The miitary is because were not serious abou war.The one sexception, 1
Detroit. (Four men, including the Bill Clinton's core political con- there is anything like “forced bus- 8erEoSittte that there should note, is the Marine Corps, which still separates the sexes in training..
। ex-husband of Kerrigan s rival, stituencies have long pushed him ing," since, as he disingenuously W tLat he fled while at Gender-integrated basic training is undermining rigorous standards and
i Tonya Harding, were later toward quotas, set-asides and the puts it. “School districtsido notafore the NAACP Legal Defense Fund crcating an environment in which recruits are vulnerable to sexual misconduct
sentenced to prison.) us ual raft of racial entitlements. children to ndeab rus"Hesaystha. that in principle he would not have and abJse At the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Great Lakes, III., for
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agency as saying the Kremlin “mend, not end” affirmative action tion repeatedly demed that it would ™ with rifles and are issued "blue cards” to give their training instructors when
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