Word: latters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is what things have come to in the latter days of school desegregation in Kansas City. For the sake of desegregation, blacks are sometimes barred from the most popular schools on account of their race, lest they tilt the enrollment too far from the goal of 35% white students. Like most urban systems, the Kansas City, Missouri, School District (KCMSD) has lost white students to the suburbs in droves, which has made the task of achieving racial balance nearly impossible. After deciding that inner-city students could not be bused out to the suburbs as part of a mandatory...
...pursuit of happiness." "I did everything so this child could have freedom and choice," she told Today, "and have what America stands for. Liberty comes from being in that space of just living your life." But the Founding Fathers made a distinction between liberty and license, the latter being freedom that is used irresponsibly. License may have been precisely the freedom Jessica's parents gave...
They are not the first to find that transplanting skitcom to the big screen carries as many perils as seductions. Sometimes the result is Wayne's World, and sometimes It's Pat. Thanks for trying, Kids, but Brain Candy is the latter...
...SHOULD NOT TRY TO CONTAIN OR appease China, the upstart superpower, without first exposing the latter's Achilles' heel [WORLD, March 25]. The overriding reason for Beijing's saber rattling during Taiwan's presidential election campaign is that China's leaders are scared of the ripple effect that Taiwan's march toward full-fledged democracy will have on its own 1.2 billion population. The masses, having seen Taiwan progress from a backward nation into a free, prosperous country, may demand to choose their own leaders through a similar election or a plebiscite on China's communist system. The only thing...
Missionary activity is at the heart of the Church of Latter Day Saints, according to Brinton, who said that the Church currently has 9.4 million members worldwide, with the majority residing outside of the United States...