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...faced during Reconstruction, saying that Reagan "could end up putting Black folks in a worse position than if a racist were in the White House." This has turned out to be true, but the damage shouldn't be irrevocable. The reversal of Reagan's veto indicates that his wholesale neglect of minority concerns is no longer acceptable to this country...
...secessionist uprising has begun to stir in the Torres Strait Islands, a balmy archipelago off Australia's remote northern coast. Charging neglect by the government in far-off Canberra, the 5,000 mostly Melanesian islanders are demanding self-rule, along with $3.5 billion in federal compensation. Their main gripe is that Australian-based fisheries are exploiting the waters surrounding the 15 islands, which include those whimsically named Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday...
...been the same since ((Campaign Manager John)) Sasso left last October." Sasso's departure in the wake of the Joseph Biden "attack video" caper has left the Dukakis campaign with no one of that stature to override the candidate's own stubbornness. Even now Dukakis vows not to neglect his Governor's duties for the campaign trail. He still balks at suggestions that he adopt a more moving oratory, and resists foreign policy briefings that would remedy his woeful lack of sophistication in that area...
Clearly, time has run out for such neglect. Says Boston Principal Holland: "Schools can't educate alone. They used to be isolated, but now the problems are so magnified that it takes the family, it takes the school, it takes the community all working together to make education possible." Top educators emphasize that the commitment must be nationwide and backed by consistent Federal Government support. All the wonderful, well-meaning spot programs designed to help underachievers or trouble makers really amount to no more than Band-Aids applied to the lucky few. Fortunately, after proposing cuts in the national education...
...would think that somehow our academic calendar could be proven unconstitutional because of "cruel and unusual punishment." Unfortunately, the effort would never stand up in court. While the schedule is certainly cruel, at Harvard this kind of student neglect is far from unusual...