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Dates: during 1990-1999
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William Julius Wilson's important book, When Work Disappears, identifies the lack of jobs as the key to black poverty and social disarray. The Thernstroms dismiss Wilson's work as simply "plausible." Some blacks have made it, they note; let those on the bottom emulate these role models. But even those blacks who have achieved are bitter about the racism they faced on the road to success. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, reminded that his people had come a long way, responded, "But so have other people come a long way...People say we are better off today. Better than...
...past and is therefore more of a liability than an asset to today's multiracial National Party. Last week he told TIME: "I've always adhered to the management philosophy that a top manager shouldn't be in the job too long." The remark was characteristically De Klerk: low key, declining the chance to paint himself as a large figure in history...
...Beijing the talks were down to the wire. In the balance: billions of dollars in the textile and apparel trade between the U.S. and China. Chief U.S. negotiator Rita Hayes climbed into a Chinese limo for a key meeting last January and was joined for a 20-minute ride by Stephen Lau, a Hong Kong textile tycoon and self-described adviser to the Chinese...
Whether the disease does break out--and how widely it spreads--may depend less on how local governments respond than on the reaction of local citizenry. "The key is to protect yourself," says Tom Skinner of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. "That requires wearing long clothing, using insect repellent and staying indoors in the hours right before and after sunset." Avoiding encephalitis-carrying mosquitoes may be no harder than avoiding their benign kin; the stakes, however, are decidedly higher...
This lack of personal knowledge is, for the unscrupulous, a golden opportunity to create a history that serves their own purposes. One of the key self-serving myths to emerge is that blacks owe their economic and social advancement to the civil rights victories...