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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their zeal to offer alternative explanations for racial disparities, the Thernstroms often construct tenuous arguments. Studies have repeatedly agreed with blacks' complaints of redlining, but the Thernstroms posit that the key factor is more likely low black income--as if the fault lies with black people who don't know how to read their checkbook balance before they venture forth to buy a house...
...claim that communist China had tried to "subvert" U.S. elections in 1996 with illegal campaign money, although Democrats confirmed that a classified briefing provided evidence to suggest China had at least tried to influence the congressional elections last year. But in its helter-skelter way, the committee began to construct a coherent tale. Asian money--specifically from Indonesia's Lippo Group and its onetime executive Huang--had infiltrated Democratic coffers longer, deeper and with more political strings attached than had previously been known...
Intercontinental Companies--owner of the five properties in Winthrop Square--will break ground this fall to construct a seven-story building behind Grendel's Den Restaurant, yielding a 10,000 square foot parking area, three floors of retail space and 12 condominium units...
...fields as different as the hard sciences and the fine arts, professors say that the shift towards sourcebooks creates a different learning experience in the classroom as students are encouraged to construct their own understanding of the material...
...soon the University will construct a new center for international studies. Campaign brochures are replete with references to Harvard's desire "to extend and enrich the University-wide agenda in international and regional studies...