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...exclusively from Western thought and examples? This was a good question that was probably answered too quickly by teachers and administrators on the front lines: No reason, no reason at all. In their defense, these educators faced formidable problems -- students who did not speak English, classrooms disrupted by the clash of different mores and patterns of behavior confined in close quarters. Also, there was the troubling matter of school dropouts and of the persistent underperformance of some blacks and Hispanics, as compared to that of most Asians and whites. Blame for all this could not be placed on children...
There was some irony in this clash of judicial views. Rehnquist was appointed to the court by Richard Nixon and promoted to Chief Justice by Ronald Reagan, both harsh critics of activist judges. As a civil rights attorney, Marshall won landmark rulings that overturned long-standing precedents upholding legal segregation. Now Rehnquist and his like-minded colleagues seemed bent on pursuing an aggressive conservative agenda, while Marshall was fighting to uphold the decisions of the past...
...while it looked like Harvard and Cambridge were headed for the worst town-gown clash in decades...
...clash never happened. Before the pressures of recession or community agitation could grow too great, Harvard and the city announced a landmark agreement that dramatically increased the money the University would give to the city each year in voluntary contributions...
...miles from the capital, the President discredited and the army demoralized, the script would seem to be preordained for Ethiopia. Liberia and Somalia have provided the worst kind of models in the past year: the government falls, blood splatters the capital, thousands flee the country, tribes and clans clash, anarchy prevails. This time, the foreshadowing has prompted an earnest attempt to rewrite the scenario. The chief scribe is the U.S., which until recently, when the Soviets became less active in the region, had little influence over Ethiopia's quasi-Marxist combatants...