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So the debate about affirmative action will go on. In deciding two University of Michigan affirmative action cases recently, the U.S. Supreme Court left us where it found us. The justices upheld the consideration of race as a factor in admissions at the University of Michigan law school, but struck down a weighted point system that tilted in favor of minorities in Michigan More

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The death of journalist David Brinkley brought the usual cries of how terrible the state of TV news is these days. Newsweek magazine, always a predictable source of establishment angst, praised Brinkley as one of a kind and far superior to the "blowhard" TV news types these days. I felt quite a breeze as that insult whizzed by. More

Al Gore

Tying Nashville Together has set forth an ambitious agenda for this year

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The gays have won. The problem is no one will admit it. The latest big news is that Canada is poised to legalize same-sex marriage. But the signs of the gay victory have been all around for us for years. More

By all accounts, the battle within the Bush administration over just what information should be used to make the case that Saddam Hussein posed an imminent threat to the world was a knockdown, drag-out fight between the facts and a highly politicized "who needs proof?" mindset. And at the end of the day, the truth was left writhing on the floor. More

House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh did the right thing last week by calling for the abolition of all vanity license plate tags. While we really don

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To comment on a City Paper story or local issue, send us a typed letter 100 words or less (with zip code and a daytime phone number for verification) to: letters@nashvillecitypaper.com, or Editor, The City Paper, P.O. Box 158434, Nashville, TN 37215. Letters may be edited to fit. There is no guarantee letters received will be printed. More

I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out how to "get" you to talk to me instead of all those others. You're now the interview to get, you know. More

A forthcoming book by authors Johnnetta B. Cole and Beverly Guy-Sheftall, titled Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women