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...city. Topeka has no mandatory busing for school integration; students are allowed to attend any school they choose. But in 1973 Evelyn Johnson sued for $20,000 in damages, claiming that the Brown decision had never been put into practice in Topeka and that she was receiving an inferior education. Blacks maintain that the Topeka system permits whites to flee second-rate schools in the inner city, leaving behind lower-income nonwhites who cannot afford to travel long distances to classes...
...have not been seriously threatened." Affirmative Action Critic Nathan Glazer, a sociologist at Harvard, says a real danger to academic freedom is that faculty members "don't want to go to all the trouble" of proving they have been unable to find qualified blacks or women, so they tolerate inferior appointments...
Today regarded as an American musical classic, Lerner and Lowe's Camelot met with a less-than-enthusiastic reception from critics when it originally opened. They dismissed the Lerner show as being inferior to My Fair Lady, its immediate predecessor by the same composer-lyricist team. The comparison irritated Lerner, who pointed out that he and Lowe had had hits before My Fair Lady, such as Brigadoon...
...need it. Failure to do so results in far greater indirect costs to society in terms of increased medical expenses, absenteeism, child abuse, delinquency, crime and alcoholism, among other problems. The shorter-term treatments that I and others have been advocating for some (not all) conditions are not inferior substitutes, but actually more effective ways of achieving desired therapeutic objectives...
...school way, Fish dismissed Jimmy Carter as "the biggest asset the Republican party has," and rejected the notion that athletes are intellectually inferior. He said, "The last four presidents [before Carter] all played football for their college teams...