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...worry about the urban centers or the college towns falling into line. Clinton's core constituency, by contrast, is a group that Democrats must win but frequently don't. Working-class whites, despite their historical ties to the Democratic Party, have shown time and again that they will defect if they don't like the nominee. They jumped in large numbers to Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s, to Richard Nixon in 1972, to Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush in the 1980s...
...support the three families living in her shack in the dirt-poor township of Alexandra, near Soweto. The choir, which pays members a day rate of $20 per rehearsal, seemed the answer to her prayers, until she collapsed during a performance and was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect. Today, out of hospital, solvent and dreaming of buying a house, she credits these experiences for the raw emotion in her extraordinary voice. "When I sing, people cry," says Sidumo. "I ask them, 'Why?' They say, 'I was thinking about hardship. I lost my husband. I lost my children.' Then they...
...lasted. Many of the country's ethnic Chinese and Indians are angry about the continuation of a national affirmative-action plan that favors Malays, the country's largest ethnic group, in everything from education to government contracts. Saturday's results showed ethnic minorities made good on their vows to defect from the National Front, with many switching to the DAP camp. "People can only put up with so much," says DAP Secretary-General Lim Guan Eng, who is set to become Penang's new Chief Minister. "Dissatisfaction has reached a boiling point...
...write to respond to some of the conclusions presented in “Students Defect from Sciences” (news article, Feb. 7). The article makes many important points about sources of student dissatisfaction in the sciences, including large course sizes and an overly competitive environment. We are well aware of these problems. The new (as of 2006-07) Life Sciences concentrations are, as the article notes, one way of addressing some of these issues. In the smaller concentrations, each with a dedicated advising staff and more access to faculty, our goal is to provide an intellectual and human environment...
...editing error, the Feb. 7 story "Students Defect from Sciences" mischaracterized the words of biology professor Richard M. Losick. While the story said large lecture courses in the sciences have been proliferating—implying that the number of such courses has increased—the predominance of large science lectures is not a new trend. In fact, in a follow-up e-mail, Losick noted that the life sciences faculty has actually made attempts to move toward smaller concentrations in recent years...