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...example, in an attempt to prove that “racism doesn’t always prevent minorities from prospering,” he claims that before the Civil Rights Movement blacks had a higher labor force participation rate than whites, but after the movement, they had a lower participation rate. First, this participation rate does not equal prosperity. If participation in the labor force were the definition of prosperity, then black tenant farmers would have been defined as more prosperous than their white landlords. Second, though a greater proportion of blacks may have been in the labor force before...
...earning victory by clearing the height on her first attempt. She had planned on resting during the weekend by foregoing to trip to Pennsylvania, in order to rest from the long and draining season, but ultimately decided she had nothing to lose.Although her winning height of 179 cm is lower that her personal best of 183 cm, Christensen is still pleased with the performance. “The people who jumped the same heights I did have also jumped 183 cm, so I wasn’t the only one that didn’t jump as high...
...shape their own Interfaith Awareness Weeks,” Syed said. “Over the years, we’ve acquired the resources and manpower to make this a national approach.”A (NON)TRIVIAL PURSUITInterfaith Awareness Week concluded with teams gathering in the Adams Lower Common Room to test attendees’ knowledge of other religious faiths in the form of a team trivia contest. Prior to the event, each co-sponsoring group submitted 10 questions concerning the major beliefs, people, holidays, and scriptures of their religion. No student was allowed to answer a question concerning...
...TIME: Recently BMG record label pushed famed music executive Clive Davis into a lower position. Are music industry business models changing too fast for the older execs?RUSSELL SIMMONS: You need progressive young thinkers, but Clive always is good at finding them. If you need people to find new ways to monetize music, they're likely to stumble into Clive's office as much as they are anyone else's [for] his vision. He's open minded enough to find whoever that is. It's not going to be the top executive who figures out the next creative...
...almost a quarter of century, as life unfolded in the quiet Lower Austrian town of Amstetten, Elisabeth Fritzl was enduring an unimaginable ordeal behind the plain gray walls of a nondescript house there...