Word: equalization
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...felt that we should definitely protect the identities of the students involved, and that we have an equal responsibility to inform the Harvard community about a serious issue it rarely confronts. The students' class year and house are just two pieces of a picture that may better inform the community. For example, the reader may have formed a different conception of the issue if the undergraduates were both first-years--a detail that might, or might not, indicate a problem of stress and emotional difficulty for first-years...
Despite often emotional debate over such incidents, however, bilingualism remains a scattered, mostly local concern. Demands that Spanish be granted equal status have been limited to places like Miami, where Hispanics have achieved a measure of political power. Similar claims for other languages are virtually nonexistent. Nor is the issue new. In 1862 Congress defeated a bill that would have required U.S. government publications to be printed in German, then widely in use. In 1975 a similar debate erupted over the decision to require bilingual ballots in places with large non-English speaking populations. That the U.S. is -- and will...
...representation, the other by nine new provincial legislatures, that will write a permanent constitution. The President, chosen by the winning party, will oversee a Cabinet of 27 ministers, including representatives from any party that wins 5% of the vote. A powerful constitutional court will back up the guarantees of equal treatment...
MOSCOW: Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, claiming that 40% of crimes in the capital are committed by people from former Soviet republics, ordered them to register with the police and pay a daily levy of 800 rubles, about 66 U.S. cents but equal to one-tenth of the Russian minimum monthly wage. Those who fail to register and pay will be fined as much as 500,000 rubles and deported. A widespread animosity was displayed by many Muscovites. "Those buggers are so packed with dough that these fines won't stop them," said one local worker...
Lewis, who holds the Martin Luther King Jr. chair in history at Rutgers University, puts ideas on an equal footing with his cast of characters. They include Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskegee Institute and Du Bois' principal rival for the souls of black folk. "The Great Accommodator," as Washington was known, stressed vocational training as the road to progress. Aim higher, was Du Bois' response, especially meant for the ears of those he called "the talented tenth," men and women like himself...