LAST spring the news that Senators Dole and Kennedy were cosponsoring civil-rights legislation provoked dismay at one of Grover Norquist’s weekly gatherings of conservative activists. Over bagels and coffee, the activists gloomily pondered what promised to be a conspiracy to maintain race and gender preferences in the name of reform. But it was a false alarm.
“Not Kennedy, Canady” corrected a latecomer, dispelling the gloom by informing the group that Bob Dole had teamed up with Rep. Charles Canady, the conservative sophomore from Florida, in a serious effort to eliminate all federal race and gender preferences.
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