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...Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a think tank based in Washington, shows that 60% of blacks support vouchers, but almost all prominent Democrats are staunchly opposed to them. They aren't even willing to find out whether giving black kids in lousy public schools the chance to attend private or parochial institutions could help close the academic gap between black and white students, the most urgent racial problem we're facing. The hostility to vouchers is usually phrased in sanctimonious rhetoric about preserving the public school system--often mouthed by Democrats, including Jackson, who sent their children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Erasing Trent Lott's Legacy | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

...proper fate of alternative-ed students was settled here long ago. "It's on a case-by-case basis, the way it should be," says Corella. Countywide, about 10% of the students elect to stay in the alternative setting until graduation. Corella reports that 40% of Mujeres grads attend junior college, and a few have even gone on to four-year universities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking the Alternate Route | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

...state's highest." A Connecticut reader declared, "Life has changed for those living in the shadow of casinos--and not for the better. We have more traffic, more crime and higher drunk-driving rates." Said a fellow Nutmeg Stater: "We cannot vote in tribal elections or even attend tribal meetings, yet decisions made at them alter the entire region. A gambling economy has been forced upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 13, 2003 | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

...quarter. It's only 40 kilometers to the dmz?well within artillery range?but you can't get much farther from the Stalinist North than this hip watering hole, where college student Lee Sung Yeon, 20, sips expensive cocktails with her girlfriends and talks about politics. Lee didn't attend recent anti-American protests, during which some of the demonstrators called for the withdrawal of 37,000 U.S. troops stationed in her country. "Too extreme," she says. But she likes the idea of a nuclear-armed North Korea. That's because, she argues, her country will inherit the weapons when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not on the Same Page | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

...seven semesters on the UC later, I stand before you still filled with that same enthusiasm and faith I felt for the Undergraduate Council even before I was elected,” Lee said to an audience that included her parents and brother, who traveled from New York to attend the meeting...

Author: By Alexander J. Blenkinsopp, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lee Hands Over Council Reins | 1/6/2003 | See Source »

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