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...growth document would probably set up Harvard's Red Line--a barrier agreed upon in 1972 to prevent Harvard expansion into residential neighborhoods--as a model for Cambridge's other educational institutions, says John R. Pitkin, a committee member and chair of the mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association...
...students, offers more than 200 undergraduate and graduate degrees. Its library, with more than 1 million volumes, is the biggest in the state. Alcorn's academic offerings are limited almost exclusively to degrees in education and agriculture. The plaintiffs are demanding an end to the artificially high entrance barrier at the formerly white schools. But more important, they want Mississippi to spend enough money on Alcorn and the other black schools to upgrade their standards, and to add remedial programs to assist black students as they enroll at the predominantly white schools. White Mississippi educators and politicians fear that that...
Ramakrishnan faces the challenge of speaking all of his lines in Hindi. In the script, Horovitz translates Gupta's speeches into English so the reader will understand his meaning. On stage, however, Horovitz dramatizes Joey and Murph's inability to communicate with their society by creating a language barrier between them and Gupta. Ramakrishnan effectively conveys this barrier--the audience never suspects that he might actually know English...
Unregulated choice programs present a barrier to the goal of an integrated society. Certainly American schools and neighborhoods are already largely segregated. Poorly planned choice systems will reverse the progress toward integration made in the last 30 years: White parents will avoid schools with significant minority populations. Popular schools will select students they perceive as less likely to cause problems, which may mean choosing whites over minorities. The effect will be a systematic resegregation of many districts...
...change the situation to one in which the superior is a homosexual man who has made unsuccessful advances to his assistant, then the nature of the discussion becomes quite different. In this situation, the conversation cannot be seen as normal office conversation. A barrier has been crossed. The superior can rightly be accused of sexual harassment...