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...higher, compared to just 10% of Hispanics and 4% of blacks. And 25% of non-Hispanic whites had SATs above 1100, compared to 8% of Hispanics and 3% of blacks. California's redesigned admission scheme allows admissions officers to give more favorable consideration to applicants from poorer households. But for African-American and Latino applicants, that was not as helpful to them as considering race was under the old system. One reason is that among less affluent students who applied to Berkeley, Asian Americans were represented much more heavily than blacks or Hispanics...
Opposites attract. If we didn't believe that slightly dubious premise, our culture--not to mention our inner lives--would be infinitely poorer: no Wuthering Heights, no Bringing Up Baby. On the other hand, to be strictly fair, had we been spared that thought we would also have been spared Abie's Irish Rose and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? You win some, you lose some...
Through new nationally supported, state-directed tutoring programs, he said his administration wants to fund a program of bringing one million tutors to poorer schools...
...after spending grant money on rearing his dysfunctional children, he is forced to present his findings on the "undiscovered" New Guinea tribe that he was supposed to have used the money to study. The resulting mess that follows is a formulaic farce filled with poor acting, an even poorer script and obnoxious, one-dimensional characters with barely anything sympathetic about them. Occasionally, the film tries to get warm and sweet, but concludes with a contrived and impossible ending. Leaving the theatre, one cannot help feeling that Touchstone Pictures took a cue from Krippendorf and his false tribe by stealing ticket...
...recent closing of the Tasty. Many of the anti-Big-Mac folk were pro-Tasty. They realized that the Tasty's prices and spirit were fair to the working class and true to the area's feel. In that case, the defenders of Harvard Square were concerned for poorer residents. Is a bigger bank really needed here...