id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt race-1997-36 race-1997-36 1997 .txt text/plain 2019 92 60 $tRains of Ambivalence But does even that certify the wisdom of a deci-sion that would, virtually overnight, impose the across-the-board prohibitions on race preferences that the opponents of affirmative action are now demanding? To return to polls for a moment: If the question is changed from an either-or choice about explicit race preferences to more general matters about affirmative action, the answers change as well. cache/race-1997-36.txt txt/race-1997-36.txt