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Curious, I slunk into Revolution Books armed with my reporter's notebook, my power pen and my stoic journalist expression, prepared for a smooth and meaningless statement from a slick, faceless spokesperson. I waited nervously in line behind some clean-cut first-years buying Expos books and an Eliot House resident buying Maoist literature to talk to Rachael Adler, a senior staff member of Revolution Books...
...almost all educational debates in America come down to questions of race and class. So too with Choice: What would it mean for students trapped in the holding-pen schools of the inner city? What are its implications for racial balance in the South, where the very word Choice conjures up white flight to private academies in the 1960s and '70s? Can the nation offer parents true educational Choice without formally abandoning the ever-elusive goal of school desegregation...
Dudley was once the holding pen for transfer students and a haven for off-campus undergraduates. Its conversion to a graduate student center began last year when the College administration decided to place transferees directly into the house system...
...sparking a national debate over religious freedom. Hundreds of youths, mostly Arabs, riot in a suburb of Lyons over charges of police brutality. Off-duty paratroopers attack Arabs in Carcassonne, injuring five. "There's an overdose of foreigners," the conservative mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac, charges. Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the anti-foreign National Front, seizes the opportunity to claim that France is heading for "civil...
...more pessimistic oracles are casting doubt on the nation's ability to absorb the shock of the new, of a more rough-and-ready economic atmosphere, as well as the unfamiliar idea of multiculturalism. While the mainstream political parties cast about for fresh directions, Le Pen's racist National Front can count on a basic 15% of the popular vote in any election...