Word: chasms
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...This chasm that now exists between the prospects of those in the black elite and those in the black underclass poses the most substantial threat to black life since the end of Reconstruction. Martin Luther King Jr. and contemporary activists made tremendous strides with their nonviolent approach and dogged pursuit of a dream of racial integration. But despite their progress, the black underclass remains the most isolated, impoverished, alienated and exploited group in America. Harvard’s Civil Rights Project released a report last month stating that Boston’s neighborhoods are just as segregated as they were...
...This chasm that now exists between the prospects of those in the black elite and those in the black underclass poses the most substantial threat to black life since the end of Reconstruction. Martin Luther King Jr. and contemporary activists made tremendous strides with their nonviolent approach and dogged pursuit of a dream of racial integration. But despite their progress, the black underclass remains the most isolated, impoverished, alienated and exploited group in America. Harvard’s Civil Rights Project released a report last month stating that Boston’s neighborhoods are just as segregated as they were...
...between the warring factions sat Jessica M. Marglin ’06, who—as a Hillel member and committed progressive activist—bridges the chasm between the two sides...
...which has remained staunchly opposed to any rapprochement and inclined to see Catholic overtures in Russia as an attempt to poach for souls. There again, however, some of the theologians around the pope may be inclined to see his outreach to the Orthodox as somewhat na?ve, given the theological chasm that divides the two churches on such basic issues as the papacy itself...
...when it came to repealing the 35-hour week altogether, Raffarin demurred. "We can't do everything the first year," explains Raffarin aide Jean-François Cirelli. He acknowledges that the government's public-pension reform won't go even halfway to bridging the estimated j43 billion funding chasm that will open between now and 2020. Now, though, both private and public employees will have to work longer to get a full pension, and "it will be an easy matter to raise the contributions down the line if we have to," he says. That still leaves him hoping unemployment...