□ The execution of South African poet Benjamin Moloisi had nothing to do with the policeman’s murder. The judge is a literary critic.
□ William Bradford Reynolds is at it again. This time, the indefatigable Associate Attorney General for Civil Rights is launching an attack on a form of racism seldom discussed: the practice followed by some schools of lowering academic standards for minority students who need a higher grade-point average in order to graduate. Fearing charges of racial discrimination, some schools “are leaning over backward to jimmy the numbers in terms of their graduating class,” according to Reynolds, who vowed to try to put an end to the “two-track systems” that leave minority students “ill-equipped to read and write and deal with arithmetic concepts.” The law under which the Justice Department would prosecute any school it found holding minorities to different academic standards? The Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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