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...superintendent of schools in Houston. Or Joyce Ladner, a sociologist at the Brookings Institution, whose idea of reviving orphanages to rescue kids from dysfunctional homes was appropriated by Gingrich. The big question is whether Bush would be wise enough to add independent-minded blacks of that caliber to his inner circle or would he succumb to the old Republican habit of stacking his government with second raters and Uncle Toms...
...added incentive, there even exist entire books (Harvard women allegedly like books) on how to knit sweaters and socks, dog coats and gloves! It's a double bonus for any 'Cliffie, fulfilling both the inner homemaker and inner bookworm's desires simultaneously, while satisfying that Harvard urge to fill all existing pockets of free time with some formof productive and useful activity...
Then there are times when the digital divide looks unfathomably deep. The phrase has become mired in the blurry realm of cliche, applied variously to women, the disabled, seniors, ethnic minorities, rural and inner-city populations. But the underlying threat is real. Technology has moved so fast that a new upper class--composed largely of the same white, affluent, college-educated males that made up the old upper class--has spurted ahead of the rest of society, mostly because they have the time and money necessary to acquire and understand the tools of the digital revolution...
...development of e-commerce sites. Next, it would help minority consumers get connected and create website content targeted at them. Then reality caused Dash to change course quickly. Before he could sell the consumers websites, Dash needed to go back a step: turns out that a lot of inner-city African Americans still didn't own computers. So DME's new goal became filling that need by selling low-cost computers in the urban marketplace, in effect acting as general contractor in the project to build a bridge over the digital divide...
...Gore imagined it well enough that very day for his after-church inner-circle huddle Sunday to include Walter Dellinger, a constitutional scholar and former U.S. solicitor general. Nobody's saying what the plan is, but the acronym "SCOTUS" immediately springs to mind...