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...plan consisted of education and support. For example, volunteer students from Stuyvesant High School tutored inner-city, minority junior high students to prepare them for the Stuyvesant exam. The Board of Education and concerned students did not seek superficial remedies like racial quotas; we focused on the core of the problem, like high dropout rates, apathy to education, and low self-esteem, and we saw dramatic results...
Certainly, everyone has heard these arguments before. But the way we compensate for this luxury may be even worse. We invent for ourselves a false liberalism--one of Foucault and excessively correct speech, not one of the inner city and poverty. We talk about past injustices, not about the ones happening today--ones we allow to continue. We talk about how to refer to female police officers, rather than how to make the police a more effective force. Newspapers write about racial diversity, but rarely talk about economic diversity...
...female condom is already available under the name Femidom in Britain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Norway and Switzerland, and will go on sale this month in France. The version made by Wisconsin Pharmacal is a 7-in.-long polyurethane sheath with a ring on each end. The inner ring is inserted into the vagina, much like a diaphragm, while the other ring remains outside...
Perhaps in addition to the other items on her agenda, Hillary Rodham Clinton will define for women that magical spot where the important work of the world and love and children and an inner life all come together. Like Ginger Rogers, she will do everything her partner does, only backward and in high heels, and with what was missing in Atwater -- a lot of heart...
...store represents a fundamental change in the way black leaders are approaching the problems of the inner city. In the wake of the Los Angeles riots, economic development has emerged as the hottest crusade in black America, replacing the emphasis on politics, civil rights and social programs that marked the previous generation of black activists. In Los Angeles, for instance, virtually every black church and community organization now operates some sort of economic program, from economic-literacy and job-training classes to community loan funds...