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...plantations in the countryside. The former peons became small landholders, each with his own individual tract. And, with their new economic position, the peasants experienced a rise in social status. No longer were they to be called indios, or Indians, a term Europeans had used to stigmatize them as inferior beings. From now on they were to be called campesinos, a word whose literal definition--"peasant"--conveys nothing of the sense of pride and identity it implies for this once tyrannized people...
...court recognized that the mere fact of separation causes blacks to feel inferior, depriving them of their constitutional right to equal educational opportunity. But the court's final judgment stipulated that such segregation is unconstitutional only if it is "pursuant to State laws permitting or requiring such segregation." De jure segregation is a violation of the law, but de facto segregation does not come within the court's jurisdiction, although it also causes blacks to feel inferior and deprives them of equal educational opportunity...
Even the elimination of the distinction between de facto and de jure segregation is not enough. In a society of increasing polarization and escalating inner hostility, the meaning of equal educational opportunity must change. The Warren Court's judgement, maintained to this day, that segregation leads to inferior education for blacks alone, is paternalistic; that black children can receive a proper education only when exposed to whites is unpalatable...
...better American guidance systems enable the U.S. warheads to strike within a quarter of a mile of the target. The Pentagon believes that Soviet missiles can do no better than hit one-half mile from the target. The Soviets depend on size to compensate for their missiles' inferior electronic brainpower...
Only two Harvard wrestlers avoided the mistakes from weariness that seemed to plague the rest. After a slow start, Dan Blakinger, at 118 lbs., turned a weak move by a quick but inferior Andy Little into a near-fall that gave him his match-winning points in the third period...