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What I hear in those words is an appeal to black pride and determination as we fight to attain the elusive commodity that economist Glenn Loury once described as "equal respect in the eyes of one's fellow citizens." It's going to require, among other things, installing tougher classes, especially in math, sciences and literature, and making sure our kids take them; better teachers; changes in study habits; and above all else, a new burst of self-confidence. We've got to believe that even at their most bigoted, whites never came up with a test blacks couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Dropping the SAT is Bad for Blacks | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...China is more a civilization than a country, and to attain an overview requires rising to a great altitude. Hessler mostly stays low, but his micro-view of life in Fuling brings the people alive, in all their diversity, down to the mystified farmer still wondering about rice seedlings' dropping from an AAir China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From the Water's Edge | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...will not do any research, and conversely a professor who spends all of his or her time at research is unlikely to be an effective teacher. A balance is needed. From discussions in the Physics Department, I know that all of my colleagues prize good teaching and strive to attain the proper balance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...What I hear in those words is an appeal to black pride and determination as we fight to attain the elusive commodity that economist Glenn Loury once described as "equal respect in the eyes of one's fellow citizens." It's going to require, among other things, installing tougher classes, especially in math, sciences and literature, and making sure our kids take them; better teachers; changes in study habits; and above all else, a new burst of self-confidence. We've got to believe that even at their most bigoted, whites never came up with a test blacks couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Dropping The SAT Is Bad For Blacks | 3/4/2001 | See Source »

Professor of Government Seyla Benhabib, chair of the Social Studies program and former chair of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women, announced her departure for Yale this fall, saying she thought Social Studies would never attain departmental status...

Author: By Daniel K. Rosenheck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tenure Problems Persist for Women | 2/7/2001 | See Source »

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