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...Supreme Court decision established the constitutional precedent for bilingual education when it found that San Francisco had discriminated against 1,800 Chinese children by failing to help them overcome their linguistic handicap. Last month the legal issues seemed to come full circle as a group of Brooklyn parents filed suit against the New York State commissioner of education, claiming that tens of thousands of children are "languishing" in poorly run bilingual programs. The suit charges that American-born children with Latino surnames and low test scores are consigned to Spanish-language classes even if their dominant language is English. Fearful...
After a wild Saturday morning drive to Brooklyn for the Eastern League Tournament, the Harvard men's water polo team didn't need any more unexpected excitement. But the day was just beginning...
...persistent, insoluble public relations problem--certain elements in the community despise him--he is a model of the entrepreneurial spirit that we like to believe made America great, and at 19 he has the ulcer to prove it. Strike is a crack dealer monopolizing the trade in a Brooklyn, New York, housing project...
...marketing analyst at media consultant SIMBA Information. "But now they want to know how you make money selling a $1.59 bottle of dish detergent on the World Wide Web." There may be better ways to make 'zines pay. Kyle Shannon, who started Urban Desires with some friends in his Brooklyn living room, believes that within the next few years, people will be willing to pay small amounts of money--"like a nickel an article," he suggests--to read their favorite online publications. All it would take to survive is thousands of people a day, each paying 5 cents an article...
Though people talk about "urbanization" as the process that ushered in modern ills, many urban neighborhoods at mid-century were in fact fairly communal; it's hard to walk into a Brooklyn brownstone day after day without bumping into neighbors. It was suburbanization that brought the combination of transience and residential isolation that leaves many people feeling a bit alone in their own neighborhoods. (These days, thanks to electric garage-door openers, you can drive straight into your house, never risking contact with a neighbor...