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...government has denounced South Africa's policy of apartheid and devoted the lion's share of its scanty foreign aid to assisting 45 friendly African states. Beijing also gives scholarships to 1,600 black students each year to study at Chinese universities. Unofficially, though, many Chinese consider blacks racially inferior and question their government's aid to Africa when citizens at home are tightening their belts...
...also from people like Jay Leno and David Letterman, who hardly received Rhodes scholarships themselves. It isn't just a matter of Ivy League students disparaging people who don't go to college; friends at home, from laborers to the self-employed to college dropouts, claim they sometimes feel inferior and less intelligent because they never received a degree...
...clearing blocked neck arteries, found nearly a third of the procedures "inappropriate." Similar questions have been raised about heart bypass operations and pacemakers. The next Administration must put a premium on value and coordinate a nationwide re-examination of diagnostic and surgical procedures to curtail the exorbitant, unnecessary or inferior...
...when Roy McMullen's Degas: His Life, Times & Work was published. Aspects of Degas's work -- mainly his ballet paintings from the 1880s -- have long been popular with a broad audience, too much so for their own good. But he has never been a "popular" artist like the wholly inferior Renoir, whose 1985 retrospective in London, Paris and Boston beguiled the crowds and disappointed everyone else. Degas was much harder to take, with his spiny intelligence (never Renoir's problem), his puzzling mixtures of categories, his unconventional cropping, his "coldness." The long continuities of his work have not always been...
Camille Holmes '89, former president of the Black Students Association, explains that racial harrassment--such as name-callings, the promotion of stereotypes, and the belief that Blacks are inferior to whites--at Harvard is still alive...