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...took their pick of three schools closest to their home, the district used race as a consideration in making assignments, to achieve diversity in each school. After the numbers were crunched, 85% of parents got their first choice of school. Even more eye popping: the schools now boast near equal head counts of black and white students...
...made by Speedo, Nike, Adidas and Tyr, are believed to improve speed. That didn't stop USA Swimming, the sport's national governing body, from banning them last week from the U.S. Olympic trials in August. It was concerned that the 1,200 or so competitors did not have equal access to the suits...
...hereditary peers. Yet last week, there I was, piloting Boat 17 in the highly combative 12th annual House of Commons versus House of Lords Boat Race. My boss, a Labor Member of Parliament, willingly put his life literally in my hands--he'd never sailed before--in order to equal the score with the Lords. I was there because I knew how to sail, and, in a moment of supreme stupidity, I said I would like to sail on the Thames...
When there's a seat open, you try to grab it. You feel bad for not being a gentleman, but on the Metro, all genders are equal. This is what those women's rights activists wanted when they burned their bras in the '60s and '70s, right? That's what we tall people tell ourselves, at least...
Under the terms of the merger, secretly negotiated through intermediaries over the last three months, Al Gore and George Bush will run on a single presidential ticket in the 2000 election and will share power as equal partners after the merger becomes final at the inauguration in January 2001. A coin toss at the DRP convention in August will determine which of them will call himself president and which will call himself vice president. By agreement, they will exchange the titles after the first four years. The "vice president" will run the DRP (for Democrat-Republican party) from a sleek...