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Arafat looks no more cooperative, despite his desperate need to produce negotiating results. He has usually been the more movable party, forced to make concessions as the inferior power in the partnership. But these days he's drawing his own red lines, refusing both to come down hard on the Islamists and to convey to his people that violence is not an option. Nor do the Palestinians feel any confidence that they stand a chance with the pro-Israel Clinton Administration...
...average black adult had only a grossly inferior elementary school education. But as more blacks became better educated and left the South, incomes of black males rose faster than incomes of white males--all well before the civil rights revolution. More blacks rose into professional ranks in the years immediately before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than in the years immediately afterward...
Suddenly, I had this overwhelming feeling of deja vu. Where had I heard this sequence before? What other personal information had the power to make someone feel sheepish, even inferior...
...income and minority students, often trapped in inferior schools, fail at a disproportionate rate. About 9% of the state's black and Hispanic seniors--7,380 last year--fail the exit test; less than 2% of whites do. The Texas N.A.A.C.P. has complained to the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights that the TAAS has a discriminatory impact. A ruling may be announced this week. "We're not against testing," says state N.A.A.C.P. president Gary Bledsoe, "but testing should be used as a diagnostic tool, not for punitive purposes...
...million enough? Certainly not. If Princeton turned it down, it is unlikely that Harvard would accept. According to the U.S. News rankings, Harvard is inferior to Princeton. Taking this into account, we maintain that although $52 million is certainly not enough, we might not demand as much as the Tigers...