Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to BSA Vice President Luanda M. Williams '99, students packed the Kennedy School's ARCO Forum to hear four panelists discuss the question: "Affirmative Action: Equal Opportunity or Reverse Discrimination...
Difference is clearly never equal; we can all agree that separate but equal just does not work. It can't, and in creating two separate schools--those who speak, read and write Ebonics v. those who don't (or, those who read Newsweek and those who don't)--the difference is being established beyond any reasonable boundary...
Certainly, difference is inevitable. I am not trying to paint a rosy picture in which we are all the same and all equal. My point is simply that the difference being established through institutionalization and under the consent of the great American system is creating a rift that I fear will never be mended...
Conductor and soloist were once again equal partners in Webern's version of "Ihr Bild." The orchestra played movingly and, for the great climax, Baer puffed out his cheeks, stuck out his neck and sounded totally despondent as he attacked the last two lines: translated from the German, "And ah, I cannot believe/That I have lost...
...rituals of the Republic," reports TIME's White House correspondent J.F.O. McAllister on the eve of President Clinton's fifth State of the Union Address. "People really do gather 'round the television and listen to the President detail his plans for the country." McAllister says Clinton will try to equal the success of last year's address, delivered amid a series of government shutdowns, which immediately turned the tables on Congressional Republicans. Clinton's declaration then that "the era of big government is over" became his most memorable line, while then-Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole effectively nipped...