Word: harmfulness
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...order that the state continue to fund lavish "magnet" schools in Kansas City because test scores at predominantly black schools still lag behind national averages. According to Thomas, the judge had misinterpreted previous court rulings -- including Brown -- "to support the theory that black students suffer an unspecified psychological harm from segregation that retards their mental and educational development. This approach not only relies upon questionable social-science research rather than constitutional principle, but it also rests on an assumption of black inferiority." This, notes Ted Shaw, the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Education Fund lawyer who represented the plaintiffs...
...successful strategy still possible? Perhaps. Where the remaining hostages are concerned, the message should be clear: harm them, and you will suffer a pounding even Saddam Hussein might deem impressive. For the long term, the beginning of wisdom is to cease denying the reality that there is no peace to keep, while pursuing a three-pronged plan...
...difficult it has been, in this land of the sentimental and the dramatic, to grapple with the forms of unmerited harm and undeserved pain," West said." If we don't come to terms with the problem of evil, then this precarious and precious experiment with democracy cannot stay afloat...
...this point, it's doing more harm than good," says President of the Harvard Republican Club Jay Dickinson '98, who identifies himself as "pure white...
Some members worry, however that while direct elections may seem like a good idea in the abstract, in practice they could do more harm than good...