[proxy_user]

There is an underlying thread here that has nothing to do with race and affirmative action. Raines is typical of many arrogant managers who want to "break up a stodgy corporate culture" and "bring in new young people and exciting ideas".

Unfortunately for them, experienced workers and institutional memory are quite valuable, and it is easy to get suckered. If you don't know what you're doing, "the best and the brightest" frequently turn out to be fast-talking con men.

The Times isn't the only iconic institution who fell for this. Look at ATT and what they had and pissed away. They spent hundreds of millions of dollars on consultants to advise them what products to sell, and in the end they had nothing.

[summer]

Re your post #12 - I think you are making a valid point.

[Publicus]

Winstar, Enron, WorldCom...the list of company's swindled by sleazy conartists posing as managers, accountants, lawyers is known. The ill-gotten gains need to be returned and the bums responsible need to be incarcerated for a while so that they can learn that embezzlement, fraud, money laundering and other crimes while defrauding the American people in the process is NOT okay.

I hope AG Ashcroft will take decisive ACTION soon.

[RWG]

Raines is typical of many arrogant managers who want to "break up a stodgy corporate culture" and "bring in new young people and exciting ideas"...but not to take their places until they are retired. So many phony guilt ridden white fools want blacks to take your place but not theirs. There are no black broadcast anchors, but all of them want affirmative action for your jobs, theirs are secure by contract. None of the guilt ridden white fools want blacks to become their bosses but if they get in by quota you are supposed to accept a feeble boss. I watched a series of Nightline reports about managers/coaches in sports and all of the white fools reporting thought it was such a good idea but not one of them has been replaced by a black reporter. I hope the blair case becomes part of the arguement in the Michigan case.