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A Race Case? Duck And Cover

机译：比赛案例？鸭和盖

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What began as a reverse-discrimination lawsuit filed by 20 New Haven, Conn., firefighters five years ago could become a long-term political headache for the Obama administration. The case involves a complaint filed by 19 white firefighters and one Hispanic who were rejected for promotions despite passing a civil-service test. After the lead plaintiff, firefighter Frank Ricci, who had hoped to become a lieutenant, and his fellow plaintiffs got high scores, the city scrapped the test and promoted no one rather than give them the jobs over black candidates who had earned lower scores. When the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case in January, the Obama administration was faced with a dilemma: how tohandle a case with the potential to stir up old controversies over "racial quotas"-an issue that Obama, as a candidate, made clear he wanted to get beyond? The case's sensitivity was only heightened by Attorney General Eric Holder's recent remark about the United States still being a "nation of cowards" on racial matters-a comment that was deemed needlessly divisive by some and refreshingly candid by others.
机译：五年前，由康涅狄格州纽黑文市20名消防员提起的反歧视诉讼始于奥巴马政府，这可能成为长期的政治头痛。该案涉及19名白人消防员和1名西班牙裔美国人提起的申诉，尽管他们通过了公务员考试，但都被拒绝晋升。首席原告消防员弗兰克·里奇（Frank Ricci）曾希望成为一名中尉，而他的原告同僚也获得了高分，之后，该市取消了考试，没有提拔任何人，只是给了他们比得分较低的黑人候选人更多的工作。当最高法院在一月份同意审理此案时，奥巴马政府面临两难境地：如何处理一个有可能引发关于“种族配额”的古老争议的案件-奥巴马作为候选人明确指出了这一问题。他想超越？总检察长埃里克·霍尔德（Eric Holder）最近关于美国仍然是种族问题上的“胆小鬼之国”的话，才提高了案件的敏感性-有些人认为这是不必要的分裂，而另一些人则认为这是坦率的。

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    《Newsweek》 |2009年第11期|10|共1页
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    Michael Isikoff;

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  • 收录信息 美国《化学文摘》(CA);
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