Word: laws
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...became Africa's most populous country. No other on the continent had a more promising future or a more exciting present. Occupying the wide basin of the mighty Niger River, Nigeria's 56 million people had built a sturdy economy and installed an active parliamentary government. Because British colonial law had largely prevented white men from owning land, the enterprise of black traders and businessmen flourished, based on exports of palm oil and cocoa. Four years before independence, drillers discovered deep pools of oil in the Niger Delta?a strike that within ten years made Nigeria the world's 13th...
This summer, marking the centenary of Vuillard's birth, Paris' Musée de L'Orangerie has mounted a retrospective of his works (see color opposite), which are displayed along with those of his brother-in-law and lifelong friend, Ker-Xavier Roussel. Both were contributors to the mighty explosion that was impressionism, but their visual worlds were quite different. Vuillard was essentially a realist, a chronicler of bourgeois life. Roussel, with his nymphs and gods, was a dreamer, trying to transplant classical Greece into the French landscape...
...Away. Even the most liberal Northern and Western schools have far fewer than the 11% black students that would match the proportion of Negroes in the population. Many have had "quota" systems for Negroes and also Jews. Most Southern med schools accept only token admissions to stay within the law governing federal support funds. Thus the vast majority of the nation's Negro doctors have been trained in two century-old medical schools created especially for them: Howard University's in Washington, and Meharry in Nashville...
With the help of manifestos issued by student revolutionary groups, Faure has set aides to work on a "master" education law that will be proposed to the Assembly next month. He plans to recommend the creation of smaller universities (10,000 to 12,000 students each) with American-style academic departments and a de-emphasis of lectures in favor of more "research, discussion, dialogue." He also hopes to prepare more students for these universities by accenting modern science and living languages, rather than classics and Latin, in the lycees (secondary schools...
...year-old official to earn such praise from a rebel leader is a rarity. But Faure has long drawn admiration for a kind of wily brilliance that proves effective in explosive situations. A feisty, self-confident law professor, he served as a cabinet minister 18 times and Premier of France twice in the revolving-door days of the Fourth Republic, and under Charles de Gaulle. Faure was De Gaulle's chief troubleshooter in handling the colonial clashes with Morocco and Tunisia. He helped forge new French ties with Red China, fought stubbornly to protect the interests of French farmers...