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My knowledge of anatomy defended the reputation of Adventist schools,
In his well-hyped Esquire "apology"--the most recent one, not last year's I-was-a-hatchet-man number in which he defended his Troopergate reporting--Brock merely says he's had "occassional pangs of doubt" about the trooper story.
Critics also point out that Wolf has defended former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, who lost her job in part for advocating similar ideas about masturbation.
The civil-rights era has long passed, and affirmative action must be defended or attacked on its merits.
And the intellectual elites who once defended standards have proved all too willing to go silent in the face of deviant behavior like Newt Gingrich's affair with a staffer.