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...administration seems to think that interaction between different racial groups is currently limited. Yet, if Black students really wished to avoid contact with others, randomization would not fix this problem. A greater percentage of Blacks in Mather House, for example, would not guarantee more contact between the races. Furthermore, one of the greatest barriers to student interaction is that most houses have entryway systems instead of common hallways...
...quickest fix--though it is one most parents hate--would be to bus pupils across district lines, which the Supreme Court has limited except in cases of deliberate discrimination. But for now Hartford's students remain trapped in pockets of poverty, where no amount of money or reforms can overcome the obstacles to achievement. Nevertheless, Hartford city councilwoman Elizabeth Horton Sheff, whose son Milo gave his name to the school case when he was in the fourth grade, has been gratified by the response to the court's ruling. "People are concerned-even the state's lawyer said there...
Although McIntyre and Moore refuses to stock many textbooks, the majority of the books are still fairly serious. If you desperately want a junk-book fix, look elsewhere for the latest Harlequin romance. On the other hand, when Patrick comes across a Danielle Steele or two in a batch of other books, those novels go out on the clearance table for a quarter each...
...late March. The irs is running 11% behind last year in processing refunds, which exerts a $4.6 billion drag on the economy and is depressing retail sales nationwide. These delays often amount to eight to 12 weeks, an excruciating lag for low-income taxpayers counting on their refund to fix the car or pay the rent. Some such workers, accustomed to quick refunds, have taken out their frustrations on storefront tax preparers like Jesse Ivy of Chicago, who twice has called police to quell near riots. Says Kevin Crosby, who received death threats from a client: "Until now, I never...
...lawyering is incompatible with mothering. It was not enough for Sharon Prost, deputy chief counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee, whose ex-husband Kenneth Greene in 1994 won custody and $23,010 a year in child support. Prost told the court she rose at 5:30 a.m. daily to fix breakfast and drive the older child to school; the younger came with her to Senate day care, where she had lunch with him and logged him out many days well before the 6 p.m. closing time. Her boss, Senator Orrin Hatch, testified that when the Senate was in recess, about...