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Boston's public schools have been a national symbol of racial conflict for more than a decade. But last week black, Hispanic and white members of the city's school committee united to elect Boston's first black school superintendent, Laval Wilson, 49, a no-nonsense administrator who has led...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes: Aug 12, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Administration officials admit that they have been indulging at least one prejudice. "There is a conscious attempt," says Rees, "to avoid appointing people who will be on the bench only a few years." Typically, too, appointees are male and white. Only four of Reagan's judges are black, eleven Hispanic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Judges with Their Minds Right | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

The theme of the tango is sexual entanglement and male domination of the female--Latin machismo, in other words. The man's upper body is rigid, and the woman revolves around him; down below, their legs and feet meet and embrace in steps too involved even for a computer to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Love Those Crazy Steps | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

In Miami the rise of Cuban political power led to the fall of Puerto Rican-born Mayor Maurice Ferre in a blustery eleven-man race. For the past twelve years Ferre had adroitly managed to hold together a coalition of Miami's black, Hispanic and white voters. He lost black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Triumph of the Status Quo | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

For once, no one voiced the cry "Vote Cuban," nor did the finalists compete in denouncing Castro. Instead, they talked about crime prevention and garbage collection. Banker Masvidal, a self-made millionaire and veteran of the Bay of Pigs invasion, inherited most of the black vote that had supported Ferre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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