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...Supreme Court stopped integration at city limits. Urban school districts lost their white students to all-white, well funded suburban high schools, and thousands of poor minority students languished in inadequate, unfunded, hopeless inner-city school districts. The solution is probably not busing thousands of inner city kids to suburban high schools, and vice versa, but metro regions have to address the issue to remain viable...
...before we start holding parties to celebrate the end of the awful Soviet state, we should briefly remember those who are unprotected. For them, the coup was a final, hopeless, misguided, destructive chance to save something for themselves. Now they will have to suffer and make a lot of stuff...
...graduates to idle youths hanging out on street corners. Some haven't worked in months or years; others have never worked. With the economy in the doldrums and companies slashing payrolls, the ranks of the discouraged have been swelling rapidly as many workers abandon their search for jobs as hopeless. More than 981,000 Americans have dropped out of the labor market because of a lack of prospects -- up 12% from last year and 14% from 1989. When the Labor Department first started tracking the group in 1967, it found about 500,000 work-force dropouts. If discouraged workers were...
...might have seemed the Revolution had been fought in vain. A writer like Henry James, for example, in transporting a nuanced country-house sensibility to England, was, almost literally, carrying coals to Newcastle; Miller, by contrast, brought to Europe things it was less accustomed to seeing: naked appetite, hopeless high spirits, French spoken with a Brooklyn accent. And what he brought back was something even richer: the great French passions -- of love and talk and food -- translated into a rough Anglo-Saxon vernacular. Joie de vivre made American...
...Homeboy Alone, hatches broad but pointed comedy from the perspective of a black street reporter (Terrence (("T.C.")) Carson) who lands a job with an all-white news team. But most of the films sketch, in furious strokes, a portrait of the ghetto and of its most feared and hopeless denizen, the black male...