Word: majority
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...look at what potential Let's Go has, and any observer would say they aren't able to fully develop right now," Herschbach says. "The Let's Go arm brings in a major part of their income...
With its dominating performance in the Harvard Invitational last Thursday at the Murr Center, the Crimson Women's Tennis team established itself as a major factor in non-varsity Harvard sports...
...observers had considered Ventura's shoestring Reform Party campaign an entertaining sideshow to the main event. Then a new poll in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune showed him with an impressive 21% of the vote--double what he had had a month before and within striking distance of his two major rivals. Gnarled in a statistical headlock at about 35% each are the Establishment heavyweights: Democrat Hubert ("Skip") Humphrey III, the state's attorney general and son of the late Vice President, and his G.O.P. opponent, Norm Coleman, mayor of St. Paul. Now the Body is a supernova in the nation...
...former Princeton University president William G. Bowen and former Harvard University president Derek Bok argue in their new book, The Shape of the River, a major justification for making sure that promising minority students can get into the best universities, even if their SAT scores are lower than those of some white applicants, is that "American society needs the high-achieving black graduates who will provide leadership in every walk of life." In other words, to make sure that our future is shaped by all our citizens, not just a few. Slavery has nothing to do with...
...only in inner cities but also in affluent and well-integrated suburbs like Shaker Heights, Ohio. According to the Washington Post, though blacks make up just over half of Shaker Heights' student body, they account for 84% of those who get Ds or Fs in at least one major subject after the fifth grade. Most black students in Shaker Heights enjoy at least middle-class status. The school system has created special programs to boost black students' test-taking skills. Counseling is available for those with strong potential but low test scores. So far, nothing has worked very well--because...