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...offerings in a school decreases as the percentage of minority and low-income students increases. In 1999, the A.C.L.U. sued the state of California, accusing U.C. schools of favoring applicants who have taken APs. Rasheda Daniel, a plaintiff, says she and her classmates didn't have an equal chance of getting into U.C. "When you look at a lot of high schools, there are gross disparities across class lines," she says. "It's not fair...
...charging tuition like the IRS. Instead, higher tuition will simply crowd out the middle class, reducing the numbers of students whose families benefit most from going to a less expensive school that requires fewer loans and that allows their families to make smaller payments. (More needy students face an equal burden of loans at Harvard as they would a public school because they receive full financial aid and accept a full loan burden wherever they go, provided they receive competitive aid packages...
...long as students do not have a voice in where they will live, they deserve to use commonly-funded resources in the Houses in equal numbers. That banning Interhouse restrictions may make it seem harder to build House community is unfortunate, and I am sympathetic to the challenge. However, House community is created and fortified not only in the dining hall, but also in House-wide events like study breaks, outings and intramural sports--all of which use House-specific funding and can be made exclusive if necessary...
...yawning psychological gulf made the prospects unlikely for a quick settlement of issues such as Palestinian statehood, Israeli settlements and the status of Jerusalem. Arafat went into the final stretch demanding to be treated as an equal party. But he felt the Israelis never accorded him that status. "They act like they are 'giving' something to the Palestinians," complains Mohammed Dahlan, Arafat's security chief, "rather than making a historical deal...
...master: photography. This was his first obsession, and when he got back to New York, he made up his mind to revolutionize it. Most American photographers, to him, were stuffy and sentimental "pictorialists," so bent on imitating the look of painting that they couldn't treat photography as an equal, independent medium. He developed a "straight" photography--direct, candid and true to nature--that captured American city experience as it had never been caught on film before, from the steaming draft horses in The Terminal, 1893, to the exquisitely etched, near Japanese view of the Flatiron Building in snow...