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The New York Times affirmative action diversity scandal demonstrates much more than the folly of the Left’s reverse racism and the top management’s arrogance. It is an example of the Left’s instrumental treatment of truth, which is the inescapable consequence of their worship at the altar of absolute equality of condition. Absolute equality is of course the utopian vision of the Left, which scorns the equality before the law that is the glory of America’s Constitution and of free government. Because the Left’s vision – or, to put it more accurately, obsession and fetish – is contradicted by the reality...

Subscribers Say Newspaper Has Slanted Middle East Coverage The Associated Press Published: Apr 18, 2002 LOS ANGELES (AP) - About 1,000 people have suspended their subscriptions to the Los Angeles Times, claiming the newspaper's coverage of unrest in the Middle East is biased toward the Palestinians. Times officials said in Thursday's editions that they began receiving numerous calls Monday about their reporting of the Middle East conflict. About 900 calls were logged Wednesday, but not all of the people requested suspensions. The protest reportedly was organized in the local Jewish community and was timed to correspond with Tuesday's 50th anniversary...