Word: matters
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Some social critics contend that black poverty can no longer be blamed on racism because discrimination is now a matter of class more than race. The argument permits whites to feel a sense of relief. But the claim is an insidious one. Racism still flourishes, not just in Yonkers, N.Y., and the Howard Beach section of Queens, but in every segregated neighborhood in the nation, which means pretty much everywhere. In addition, discrimination based on class distinctions is no less noxious than that based on racial ones. The Underclass reels under a double hit: covert racial biases and overt class...
...part of citizens who have yet to see a tangible return for their requested sacrifices. In China people are balking at being asked to cut back after a decade of reform- engendered prosperity. Both plans, moreover, face dilemmas on the crucial but politically explosive problem of price reform, a matter that in China recently led to the worst outbreak of panic buying by consumers in nearly 40 years...
Gleason says that the American public seems to be convinced that doing math--even something as simple as multiplying fractions--is a matter of ability and not of hard work...
...think [Dalton] was a victim of the battle that was going on at Harvard," says conference-goer Drury. "It was more a matter of the rest of the faculty trying to keep the Crits from getting a stronghold. If Clare Dalton is any indication, it seems as though the faculty is pretty set against letting the Crits get any real stronghold there...
...Short of a Draconian right-wing purge, which I don't imagine would happen there, CLS professors will continue to gain tenure at Harvard," Trubek predicts. "Somebody will, not this year, not in the immediate future, but CLS will continue to influence the Harvard faculty no matter what they...