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The way his opponents tell it, Ranasinghe Premadasa had some mental quirks. After his election as President in 1988, he increasingly likened himself to Sri Lanka's miracle-working Buddhist kings of old. Until recently, he also avoided overseas travel, reputedly after astrologers warned of his death should he leave...
Nowhere is the damage wrought by racial discrimination and isolation more evident and painful than in the schools. "In a way, the most tragic years for African-American kids are the years from fourth to sixth grade," says Kozol. "Those are the years in which the dream dies. In many...
Crusaders constantly emphasize that there is no justice in the United States, that our country is declining. They ask for recrimination and retribution. We have created a subculture of guilty white liberals who watch "Yo! MTV Raps" and believe they understand the ghetto. Most people are really only capable of...
The notion of equal opportunity is central to the American ideal. For that goal to have any meaning, it must be rooted in an education system that gives every child a chance to succeed. But for decades, a gulf has been widening between the quality of public schooling for children...
The B.J.P. has been waiting a long time for that turn of the wheel. The party traces its lineage to the 1920s, when a young doctor named Keshav Baliram Hedgewar founded the R.S.S., or National Volunteer Corps; its members today form the core of the B.J.P.. Hedgewar believed that...