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...Alone, are rites of self-reliance. Children face adult obstacles (or rather, superhero torture tests) and in surmounting them become adults (or rather, Hollywood's ideal of adults, as kids with weapons). Real parents are redundant in fables for latchkey kids; all authority figures are oafish, evil or, mostly, absent. The lost child finds his own way home...
...huge percentage of the minority students in this country attend poorly funded, understaffed urban public schools. No college counselors tell them where and when to apply. The network of alumni that links so many high schools to Harvard is largely absent. And, although the admissions office has gotten better, Harvard is largely absent. And, although the admissions office has gotten better, Harvard does not automatically send recruiters to these schools in the way that they do to St. Grottlesex. Recognizing this, Harvard made the January I deadline flexible for those students found in the later, second-round search. This...
...intensity as an advocate and negotiator, Kantor has a shambling charm that can be disarming. He was, for example, spotted making an early departure from a book party in Washington last week, absent the usual coterie of handlers and instead lugging his briefcase and dry-cleaning into the soggy night like any other commuter. He uses self-deprecating humor, sometimes muttering about his mistakes -- "Kantor muffs another one!" -- as if he were a play-by-play announcer. But Kantor still has the sharp reflexes that served him well as a shortstop, and he's determined that nothing is going...
...reason negative ethnic based generalizations about Black people are all too often asserted quickly and with relish in the White Media when it's a matter of a Leonard Jeffries, a Mike Tyson, or a tragically self-destructive Marion Barry--and why positive ethnic-based generalizations are absent from any consideration of a Phyllis Wallace, a Dizzy Gillespie, or a Charlayne Hunter-Gault...
...France as well as a number of Boeing jets in the presidential fleet. Exquisite flower gardens and vast plantations of pineapple imbue Gbadolite with an air of bucolic tranquillity. But it is a Potemkin village: most of the electricity is switched off when the dictator and his circle are absent, leaving thousands of townspeople to fend for themselves in the tropical darkness...