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...want to embarrass an adult, give him an extended look at himself as an adolescent. When Apted corralled the kids for 7 Plus Seven, they were truer to their age than to their respective classes. At seven most of the children had an unself-conscious boldness; at 14, their eyes hardly met the camera's. At seven they were active; at 14, guarded, at times sullen - as if they were now on to Apted's game, and loath to play it. Some of the kids practically had to be cracked to come out of their shells. Nicholas buries his head...
...What is at stake is the ability of our country, or anybody in our country, to voluntarily and consciously do anything about racial inequality. Anything that is race-conscious, they equate with racism, so all of the massive inequality is beyond the law, because addressing it becomes racist discrimination against white folks,” said Theodore M. Shaw, the director-counsel and president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Legal Defense & Educational Fund, who filed an amicus brief on behalf of the defendants. “They’re hypocrites and I think...
Attorney Liliana M. Garces, a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, filed a brief on behalf of 553 social scientists urging the Supreme Court to uphold the constitutionality of two school districts' race-conscious student-assignment plans. The Nov. 29 article "GSE Hosts Panel on Racial Balance" incorrectly stated that she filed the brief on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, her former employer...
...into a certain AP class, because we need AP classes to get into Harvard.’ It’s not at the forefront, we’re not doing everything we do to get into Harvard, but we’re all just sort of conscious. Should we join this club versus this club to get into Harvard?” Wang pauses. “I don’t know how to describe...
...more conscious of the tradeoffs between what the public or Washington elites think is important and what is important...