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...result? Same overall record, and a poorer Ivy slate...
Just 2% of the population, they will be 14% of the new Harvard freshman class, % 25% of Berkeley' s. But the sky- high marks and superlatives are exacting a price: stress, a dropout problem among the poorer and less gifted, even the specter of anti- Asian quotas at the best universities. Still, this is the most impressive generation of immigrants' children in decades. See EDUCATION...
...though large numbers of white children attended them. Her lawyers contended that many of Topeka's schools remain "racially identifiable" because of a preponderance of black or white students. They argued that schools with the largest proportion of black students have "substantially inferior" facilities and teaching, contributing to the poorer scores that lower-class blacks tend to get on achievement tests. In order to bring each of Topeka's schools close to the overall system average of 18% black students, they urged system-wide busing -- an ironic stance as Smith's father had gone to court three decades earlier...
...indigenous Fijians, who make up 47% of the island nation's 715,000 people. Since Fiji gained independence from Britain in 1970, racial tensions had been held in check by the government of Prime Minister Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara. But in April -- with the support of Indians and both poorer and educated young Fijians attracted by his left-leaning coalition's pro-labor platform -- Bavadra, an ethnic Fijian, and his Indian-dominated party came to power...
...assistance has dropped by almost 50 percent in real dollars since 1960--and much of that is concentrated now on just two countries, Egypt and Israel. Among the industrialized nations, we have sunk to 17th in the proportion of our gross national product that we give to aid our poorer neighbors abroad. Some even have suggested that $200 million is to much to give to Aquino's Philippene government...