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...champs anymore. I always felt when the Yanks were winning every year that once the first pitch was thrown, there were no more world champs. Everyone's equal...
CHRIS: The music industry isn’t what it used to be, but your ideal, the studio musician transitioning into the limelight, might be similar to that which occurs in the rap game: on equal footing with the rappers are the producers, who are arguably as important to a track’s success. Good production makes an epic difference, as can be seen in the prominent diversity on Jay-Z’s “Black Album,” where a slate of different studio gurus give each song a distinct match-up to the H.O.V.A...
...recipients who worry about paying off loans remains under the surface. But just because we’re the leader in financial aid programs doesn’t mean we can’t do more to change our culture and push forward an agenda of equal opportunity (one way to start would be to give financial aid students complete funding for study abroad). After seeing the alienation the Harvard name brings to the eyes of people around the world, we all might look more carefully for alienation and resentment on our own campus...
Then things began to improve under yet another superintendent, the outspoken Robert Spillane, 50. From 1981 to 1985, Spillane reduced incidents of school violence by 70%, eliminated a $31 million budget deficit and raised the majority of student-achievement scores to equal or exceed the national medians in math and English. Garrity, too, seemed to be winning some converts to his tough policies. "He's the bravest guy in Boston in the past 15 years," says Jerome Winegar, headmaster of now thoroughly integrated South Boston High School...
Women have also made strides in the legal arena. Since 1980, 80 nations have ratified the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, a legally binding document that commits countries to achieve equal political, social and economic rights for women. With some notable exceptions, such as the U.S. and most Muslim nations, a majority of countries have established constitutional and legal equality between women and men. The number of countries with equal-pay laws has zoomed from 28 to 90 since...