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It's a bizarre tale, and a very American tale. In fact, in 2003, it's practically unsurprising: Race is on the rampage, bedeviling the country in manifold ways.
In the last week of July, the National Football League fined Matt Millen, president of the Detroit Lions, $200,000. Why? Because he had hired the head coach he wanted-Steve Mariucci, who had been let go by the San Francisco 49ers-without interviewing any black candidates. He had tried: that is, the club had contacted five different black coaches, trying to get them to participate in some sort of interview. But none of those men would agree, because the job was Mariucci's: It was a foregone conclusion; ...