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...expert called it the biggest single instance of child neglect in Chicago's past quarter-century. Seven adults were arrested: six for child negligence, a misdemeanor, and one for cruelty, a felony. Neighbors seemed to agree that Maxine Melton meant well and kept faith as the family's de facto matriarch. But not all her housemates were as strong: a sixth woman was out at the time of the raid because she was giving birth; the child was born with a coke addiction...
...facto segregation is increasing in U.S. schools. A new study by the Harvard Project on School Desegregation found that 66% of black students and 73% of Hispanics attended predominantly minority schools in 1991-92, levels not seen since 1968. The trend is largely the result of greater immigration and higher concentrations of minorities in big cities...
Among the most ardent are thousands of Americans, many of whom have found solace for the dislocation that plagued them in the U.S. in the uncompromising faith of the settler movement. Virtually all the hard-liners consider the September agreement to be the first step toward a de facto dismantling of the 144 Jewish towns built in the West Bank and Gaza Strip since the 1967 Six-Day War. And nearly all of them are armed to the teeth: an estimated 30,000 own rifles and handguns, and several settlements boast depots stocked with mines and hand grenades...
...dowry system is alive and well. Instead of money or parcels of land, the new dowry consists of at least one advanced degree and the promise of unimpeded progress up the social ladder. Lemann skewered this practice when he observed that a college admissions dean "acts as a de facto marriage broker...
Simply put, the women's college hockey world begins and ends with the ECAC. The ECAC title is the de facto national championship, and every game is accordingly important. Providence, Brown and Northeastern aren't just regional rivals anymore--they are the national powers...