Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Willie wasn't at the school committee meeting, but he strongly agreed with McGuire's concern. "It's a very sad day for Boston to leave the high ground of a fair plan that didn't give preference to anyone and empowered parents, while making it impossible for a school to reject any student," he said...
...carpetbagger issue hurts Hillary now but will matter less and less as her media presence saturates the state in the months to come--Hillary everywhere on local news, wearing that Yankees cap, kissing babies, talking to mothers, posing with pigs at the state fair in September...
...ones who pick up litter on the beach, the ones who stop to help the ones who have flat tires, the ones who return wallets, the ones who pick and sing for fun and the ones who run the Fritos pie booth at the PTA school fair. Here's to the clerks who say, "Now you have a nice day, hear?" and mean it, and to the ones who say wryly, "If it was a snake, it would've bit you." Here's to whale savers and the wolf lovers and all the lovely birders. Here's to the citizens...
...feeling is that I have done nothing wrong," said Tsoukaldis, who declined to comment on the specifics of the situation. "I didn't feel I got a fair hearing...
Figuring out how black youngsters can rekindle that old-fashioned pride is a preoccupation of Rene Redwood, who is resigning this week as executive director of Americans for a Fair Chance, a Washington-based coalition of six civil rights and women's organizations that support affirmative action. Her departure is a big loss for the pro-affirmative action crowd, because Redwood, 43, a former executive director of the Federal Glass Ceiling Commission, has been such a forceful advocate. She still is. But she thinks her allies need new tactics to have any chance of winning over enough public support...