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While Boston has never been known for its sensitivity in racial matters, the city's parochialism is never more apparent than in its treatment of urban violence. The city is 19 per cent black and Hispanic, yet its 2,088 member police force is only 7.3 per cent black and Hispanic. Only one sergeant and two deputy sergeants are black. There are no Hispanic officers...
...Park High School. The fight began in one room at 10:30 a.m. and quickly spread. Thirty minutes later, all the white students were evacuated by the police and school officials, while the black students were kept in class to "simmer down." Since Hyde Park High is 40 per cent white, black parents wondered why the white students were considered in greater danger, and hence told to leave first. Black students were not sent home until an hour and a half later...
While Cogin plainly admits he likes glory, his goal in swimming is "to get more out of it than I put in," which might explain why he's missed 70 per cent of the morning practices this year...
...mighty United Kingdom. But recently, being British has become less attractive as inflation and unemployment wrack the country and hit Scotland even harder than England. Relief gushed out of the North Sea in the early '70s in the form of oil, and as much as 30 per cent of known American reserves, which by 1980 could provide about $7 billion in revenue to whichever government has the power...
Because supporters of home rule can be found on both sides of the devolution issue, as can supporters of a continued United Kingdom, it is not surprising that the significance of the devolution vote is foggy. Add to this the charge that more than ten per cent of the names of Scotland's voting rolls are invalid, and the fact that Britain has no established tradition of referendum, and it becomes clear that the devolution vote will not be the last the world hears of Scottish home rule...