Word: persisting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...action hold true whether the criterion is race, athletic ability or legacy status. Special treatment always has and always will breed the perception of illegitimacy and self-doubt. That doesn't mean that all recipients of special treatment are unqualified, or deserve to be questioned. But damaging impressions necessarily persist. One African-American student at the Business School recently expressed his disgust with preferential treatment in a letter to The Crimson: "if the policy is different for Blacks than for whites, then whites have an excuse to cry foul and Blacks, like myself, remain chained by our own self-doubt...
...Black Americans to improve in education, Kunjufu said, students need more Black teachers. He said myths persist in education that "Black and gifted can't go together" and that Black Americans need only the same facilities as whites, not role models and teachers...
Prep school wasn't a utopia back then and it isn't now: the issues of race and class still persist, but now in a way that more closely reflects the rest of the world. Preppies of all political persuasions have a greater sensitivity to problems of race and class...
Irreverence for religion cannot be tolerated if New York wants to combat the moral debasement which frighteningly colors so many of its crimes. The city's problems will persist if respect cannot even be mustered for the most basic rights of its individuals...
Many Haitians are hungry for quicker solutions. Rumors persist in Port-au- Prince that the American ships offshore harbor U.S. Marines who could land, just as they did in 1915 to restore stability and protect American investments following racial clashes between the country's mulatto and black citizens. Forgetting that the subsequent occupation lasted 19 years -- and was not always a happy one -- Haitian nationalists whisper that U.S. intervention may be the only answer. "You have to impose a solution. You can't negotiate," says one, who never thought he would welcome U.S. troops...