Word: bottomed
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Last year mid-season losses to both Queens and Massachusetts-both Eastern opponents-dropped Harvard into the bottom half of the draw. Thus instead of facing a weaker first-round opponent such as MIT or Boston College, Harvard was pitted against an always strong Brown team. As a result, for two years straight, the Bears have kept the Crimson out of the Eastern championship...
...last week's rally many local officials insisted that the university should think of more than the bottom line when signing contracts...
...origin of such black discontent? Shouldn't a study as exhaustive as this at least try to plumb that point? "You may be right," Abigail Thernstrom told TIME. The Thernstroms were "sufficiently tired" of the voice of black discontent that they chose not to get to the bottom of it. "I think that's a fair criticism of the book," Stephan says. "We didn't have the energy, among other things. That's an arguable failing on our part." Had they the energy or inclination, it might have made their arguments more persuasive...
William Julius Wilson's important book, When Work Disappears, identifies the lack of jobs as the key to black poverty and social disarray. The Thernstroms dismiss Wilson's work as simply "plausible." Some blacks have made it, they note; let those on the bottom emulate these role models. But even those blacks who have achieved are bitter about the racism they faced on the road to success. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, reminded that his people had come a long way, responded, "But so have other people come a long way...People say we are better off today. Better than...
DERRICK BELL, a professor at New York University, wrote Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism...