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...been a goal since the President entered office. But in wooing moderate Republicans, Clinton risks alienating a core of black constituents that oppose interracial adoptions. Opponents, such as the National Association of Black Social Workers, say a child may never learn about their cultural heritage or may suffer emotional hardship if raised by parents of another race, says TIME's Sharon Epperson. "Opponents say white parents need to recognize that this is a child of color who will face all the racism they never faced." Epperson notes that opponents believe that if white parents do not teach adopted children...
...been a goal since the President entered office. But in wooing moderate Republicans, Clinton risks alienating a core of black constituents that oppose interracial adoptions. Opponents, such as the National Association of Black Social Workers, say a child may never learn about their cultural heritage or may suffer emotional hardship if raised by parents of another race, says TIME's Sharon Epperson. "Opponents say white parents need to recognize that this is a child of color who will face all the racism they never faced." Epperson notes that opponents believe that if white parents do not teach adopted children...
...AIDS were reported, that it would become such a grave and global problem. The E.U. feels sympathetic to Britain and wants to lessen its economic loss by possibly killing fewer cows than is necessary to eradicate the disease. It shows a good spirit to want to spare economic hardship, but this must not override the real concern about a potential large-scale spread of the disease in humans. Once the genie is out of bottle, it is hard to put it back in. The potentially contaminated beef may reach Third World countries. There is no shortage of corrupt politicians...
...conflict prepared him for the acts of human kindness he uncovered last week in the Sarajevo neighborhood of Grbavica. For the past three years a group of Serbs has hidden and protected a Muslim family from "ethnic cleansing" at the hands of fellow Serbs. "Despite years of isolation and hardship, the family maintained extraordinary compassion and dignity," Calabresi says. "Meeting them proved to me that small pockets of sanity can survive in even the most suffocating environment of hatred and bigotry...
Worse for Hamas, Israel has again decided to close its borders to Palestinian laborers, causing hardship for tens of thousands of families. In the aftermath of the first bombings, Labor Prime Minister Shimon Peres lost his 15-point advantage in the polls over the opposition Likud's chairman Benjamin Netanyahu. The fallout from the most recent blast will further erode Peres' position. With elections scheduled for May 29, the government must appear firm. The borders may remain closed for months...