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...TAKES FACTS to make news. It takes opinions about facts to make political cartoons. But despite their insights, political cartoons do not instantaneously create converts. More likely, they bolster the convictions of those who already support particular ideologies, groups, or persons...
Perhaps the most problematic development is the emergence in dozens of cities of "Afrocentric" curriculums. All of them legitimately seek to ) bolster black children's confidence in their ability to achieve and to debunk the patronizing notion that black American history and culture began with the Emancipation Proclamation. When pursued with intellectual discipline, the Afrocentric idea can be inspirational. Says Franklyn Jenifer, president of Howard University, in recalling his own education at that historically black school: "Every course I took was infused with some sense of our destiny or my personal destiny and the possibility of my achieving...
...claiming that the Afro-Am department is now completely healed, but it at least seems to have broken out of its self-perpetuating slump. Now we can begin to ask the hard question: What can Harvard do, within its tenure system, to bolster weak departments and maintain its strong ones...
...Crimson has moved junior Donny Rogers back to midfield to bolster the offense...
...sparse populations -- a doctrine of deterrence is not comfort enough. They intend never to be at risk again. In a meeting in Damascus this week, Egypt and Syria, which have emerged as regional strongmen, and the six gulf states will consider plans for creating an Arab security force to bolster the defenses of the gulf countries. They envision a semipermanent troop, made up mostly of Egyptians and Syrians...