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...Peljto is a more explosive, athletic player who can drive or shoot the three with equal ease, often drawing the opponents' big players out to the perimeter and opening up the paint for a teammate or a drive down the lane for herself...
...scientific work is the primary consideration. However, the expected quality of teaching is important and is always discussed and considered. I do not believe that the Physics Department would recommend the appointment of a professor who was known to be a poor teacher. Between two candidates with approximately equal scientific promise, the edge would definitely go to the one who is likely to be the better teacher...
...thing about Harlem, and the President too, is that you don't know where you are from day to day, but you do know you are in a place that is exciting, tragic, alternately deadly and life affirming, beautiful, melancholy, delicious, religious, full of equal doses of history and flim-flam, and above all, enduring. Langston Hughes, a Harlem Renaissance writer, created a character for his columns called Jesse B. Semple, or Simple, who boasted: "I've been insulted, eliminated, locked in, locked out, and left holding the bag. But I am still here." Sound familiar...
...truth is that as long as we're lagging behind academically, we can't call ourselves equal. Now that our civil rights are legally secure and many of us have become prosperous, we need to erase every last, lingering scintilla of doubt about black intellectual ability. It doesn't matter that such beliefs are totally specious and rooted in racism. They influence decision makers in colleges, the government and corporations. If the powers that be believe in their hearts that blacks aren't as smart as everyone else (as many of them do - even if they would never admit...
...What I hear in those words is an appeal to black pride and determination as we fight to attain the elusive commodity that economist Glenn Loury once described as "equal respect in the eyes of one's fellow citizens." It's going to require, among other things, installing tougher classes, especially in math, sciences and literature, and making sure our kids take them; better teachers; changes in study habits; and above all else, a new burst of self-confidence. We've got to believe that even at their most bigoted, whites never came up with a test blacks couldn...