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- THE WEEK, Page 21SOCIETYEt Cetera
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- G-MEN OF COLOR
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- Under J. Edgar Hoover, FBI agents often served as shock
- troops in the fight against civil rights. Last week the bureau
- announced a plan to end what 300 of its black agents had charged
- was lingering bias in the way promotions and fast-track
- assignments are made. The new rules avert a threatened lawsuit.
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- BAD GRADE
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- Channel One, a classroom newscast produced by Whittle
- Communications, has drawn fire for mixing commercials with
- current events. A Whittle-funded study has found that with or
- without ads, the show isn't having much impact. Students who
- watch the newscast score little better on current-events tests
- than do nonwatchers.
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