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...Later that night, Taylor performed with a slightly older crowd as he joined Harvard performers on the stage of Lowell Lecture Hall for the weekend's crowning event, "Celebration of the Spirit," a mix of performances by Kuumba and the Caribbean Dance Troupe, and a senior project by Amma Y. "Yo' Mama" Ghartey-Tagoe...

Author: By Dana M. Scardigli, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Black Films Highlight Arts Festival | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...University of California would keep using the SAT until black students catch up with whites, Asians and immigrants from the Caribbean. It's a matter of ethnic pride. I'm as fed up with the tortuous theories experts have concocted to explain why our kids' scores are the lowest of any racial group as I am with the bigots who claim that proves they can't ever measure up. There's simply no excuse for black youngsters with college-educated parents to perform worse than white youths whose folks only finished high school. The only way to silence the critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Dropping the SAT is Bad for Blacks | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...American merger has politics on its side. Though there are a few routes, mainly to the Caribbean, where the two airlines essentially share the market, now that Judge Walsh has tossed out the competing bids and blessed the acquisition, the only alternative is liquidation - which would wreak economic havoc on the employees at TWA's bustling St. Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Today's Good Airline News Could Be Tomorrow's Bad Tidings | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...University of California would keep using the SAT until black students catch up with whites, Asians and immigrants from the Caribbean. It's a matter of ethnic pride. I'm as fed up with the tortuous theories experts have concocted to explain why our kids' scores are the lowest of any racial group as I am with the bigots who claim that proves they can't ever measure up. There's simply no excuse for black youngsters with college-educated parents to perform worse than white youths whose folks only finished high school. The only way to silence the critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Dropping The SAT Is Bad For Blacks | 3/4/2001 | See Source »

...Leaders of 10 island states in the West Indies agreed to establish a shared Caribbean Court of Justice to replace the British Privy Council as the highest civil and criminal court in most of the region's former British colonies. Human rights groups expressed concern that the rate of hangings will increase. Civil rights lawyers in Britain have succeeded in frustrating many death sentences passed in the Caribbean on the grounds that the judgments are faulty or that not all legal challenges had been exhausted. Caribbean governments, faced with a rising tide of violence and drug trafficking, are eager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

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