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...America beyond the melting pot has already arrived. In New York State some 40% of elementary- and secondary-school children belong to an ethnic minority. Within a decade, the proportion is expected to approach 50%. In California white pupils are already a minority. Hispanics (who, regardless of their complexion, generally distinguish themselves from both blacks and whites) account for 31.4% of public school enrollment, blacks add 8.9%, and Asians and others amount to 11% -- for a nonwhite total of 51.3%. This finding is not only a reflection of white flight from desegregated public schools. Whites of all + ages account...
...victim said his assailant wore a blue and orange jacket with the name "George" stiched into the sleeve. The student said the suspect was a white male with a very light complexion, taller than 5'8" and in his late 30s or early 40s. According to the student, the assailant had a "reddish-orange" beard and mustache and light brown hair...
...need to get off to a really good start," James said. "If we lead early, that'll change the entire complexion of the game. They'll start to run, and then we can start with our press...
...described as being Black, about5'5" tall, and of thin build, with short curlyblack hair and a light complexion...
...want to hear anymore. Let us leave quietly." Then, apropos of nothing more than the increasingly common disdain many Chinese appear to feel for the army they saw as their great protector before it marched on Tiananmen, this small, fine-boned woman with searing brown eyes and a complexion Margaret Thatcher would compare to a rose recites some lines of Du Fu, the 8th century poet famous for decrying the gulf between ruled and ruler in China: "So it is better to abandon a daughter at birth than to see her later married to a soldier...