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Meanwhile, the Republicans are ready to let the middle class escape ineffective public schools for private ones, effectively leaving the public schools deserted. School vouchers will lead to a mass exodus of the privileged. Who else can afford the increasingly high tuition of private schools? In many urban areas, school boards do not have the necessary resources to realize the benefits of a Republican empowerment plan. They, too, misread the charts and vital signs on education. If Republicans pull the plug on failing public schools, they must offer a successful alternative. If not, a further segregation between the elite...
Then came the exodus of more than 1 million Rwandans in 1994. Militiamen and members of the defeated Hutu army, furious at losing their war with Tutsi rebels, soon joined with their Zairian Hutu brethren and began killing Zairian Tutsi. Their objective, observers believe, is a "Hutuland" on Zairian soil that would provide a safe haven for refugees and a base for ongoing armed incursions into Rwanda...
...tough law-enforcement device, the newly revived chain gang. After an Alabama guard shot a prisoner to death during a fight between two men who had been shackled together, authorities agreed to break up the chain, though each prisoner will still wear leg irons. Officials talk of an exodus of California parolees to more forgiving states, but it's doubtful they're moving to Alabama...
Much of the exodus can be directly linked to the departures last year of the agency's shrewd, ruthless chairman, Michael Ovitz, and its charismatic president, Ron Meyer. Both men left for studio jobs--Ovitz to Disney, Meyer to MCA. They took with them the agency's aura of invincibility and its ability to inspire fear in the Hollywood shark pool. Rivals, long resentful of the agency's No. 1 status, are smelling blood in the water...
Blacks managing to crack the housing market's color barrier are quickly greeted with white flight. A mass exodus from an area begins once it becomes over 20 percent black-occupied, according to University of Michigan Professor Reginald Farley. "The presence of even small numbers of black residents is disturbing to a significant fraction of whites," he writes...