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...action, about one-third of blacks have made their way into the middle class. ``To an amazing degree, it has worked,'' says Roger Wilkins, a history professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and a longtime civil rights activist. ``If you stopped all affirmative action, we would slide backward...
...teach children a moral lesson when our own judicial system seems perverted and backward? While Jesse Jacobs may have been guilty of other crimes, he was not guilty of murdering Etta Ann Urdiales. But the state of Texas went ahead and executed him anyway [Justice, Jan. 16]. The Supreme Court needs to remember that not only does it decide issues of law, but it must also do what is right. How can the Justices sleep at night knowing they may be sentencing innocent people to death? This is just another example of how the U.S. legal system no longer holds...
...track as a harbinger of the future. When companies see unsold tables, toys and toasters piling up on their shelves, one of the first things they do is quietly cancel orders for packaging material. But the accelerating pace of such cutbacks in January could not be reflected in the backward-looking data released so far this year, including last week's report that the economy expanded at a brisk 4.5% clip in the fourth quarter...
...Bird, Barney and Mister Rogers were taken away. Without federal funds, said Randall Feldman, president of WYES in New Orleans, his station would face cutbacks almost immediately. "Early-morning broadcasts of Barney and Lamb Chop's Play-Along would go away," he said. "It would be a huge step backward for America...
...little region a lesson. After losing Eastern Europe and 14 former Soviet republics, Russia would bend no more. To revive the country's pride and show other restive nationalities what happens to secessionists, Yeltsin decided to slap down the Chechens. He thought it would be easy to whip the backward province of 1.2 million into line and earn himself a much needed boost in popularity. Instead he marched his army into a humiliating, bloody...