Word: admit
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...worried that a Supreme Court ruling against Boston Latin could be used as a sword to end all racial preferences in public secondary schools, especially prestigious magnet schools. In New York City, where the four specialized high schools admit students strictly on the basis of an entrance test, black and Hispanic students represent fewer than 10 percent of those enrolled. Next year, when Boston Latin switches to a temporary race-blind admissions policy, some estimate black and Hispanic enrollment could drop to 13 percent; system-wide, black and Hispanic students make up 75 percent of Boston's 64,000 students...
...Admit it: you've wondered why beautiful people rarely have any state-of-the-art skills. Are they born dumb, or does something happen to them during childhood? (Unless you're beautiful yourself, you've had those thoughts, so stop rolling your eyes and making that "phhht" sound...
...consequently, next year, for the firsttime in 25 years, Boston Latin will admit studentsbased on test scores and grades alone. The twoother examination schools, Boston Latin Academyand John D. O'Bryant School for Mathematics andScience, will implement similar policies...
...admit, in spite of all that carping, this album put a smile on my face. But it also made me reach for my CD collection and look for the originals. If the bands' aim was exposure, as the addresses of their record companies in the liner notes seems to indicate, a better strategy might have been to distinguish themselves and not parrot the originals--the ready-made market for '80s nostalgia would mean they would have gotten heard anyway. As it stands, however, In Their Eyes comes across as an album trying to ride on the coattails...
...reason is plain old cynicism. Corruption and crime predate civilization, so why should we bother to stop them now? But another reason, running far deeper, is harder to admit. As the American hesitation to support international justice reveals, we do not like it when other people make us play by the rules. That's not because we feel comfortable dodging justice. It's because most of us are the kind of people who at bottom believe, despite the educated words we might use in debate, that the rules do not apply to us. It is the same attitude that allows...