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...With his idea of the Martin Luther King after-school program, Gates has produced a signature prototype for addressing one of the most urgent social policy questions," Rivers says. "He's bridging the digital divide that's emerging between the poorer black community and the world...
...house system started in the early '70s. But by early this decade, the system was highly unpopular, heavily criticized for creating inequities between the houses and letting more affluent and white students succeed at the expense of poorer minority students...
Gentrification, long recognized as a problem in Boston's suburbs, is spreading throughout the metropolitan area, raising rents in traditionally wealthy communities like Cambridge and in poorer neighborhoods such as Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan...
...none of these seems plausible, then perhaps the presidential race provides the answer. At the second presidential debate in Winston-Salem, N. C. Texas Gov. George W. Bush answered a question on whether the U.S. should share some of its wealth with poorer countries by saying, "we ought to be forgiving Third World debt under certain conditions." It remains unclear whether this statement reflects Bush's sincere concern for developing countries or merely an attempt to match the compassion of Vice President Al Gore '69. Gore has been a strong supporter of the White House's debt relief plan...
...picture looks very different on the ground floor. According to Robert H. Frank's article in the latest issue of The New York Times Magazine, it's perfectly natural that people are getting richer and feeling poorer. Students don't want to make $50,000 a year, or $100,000 or $250,000. They want to make just a little bit more than all their friends. It's competition, baby--except it's not for foraging space or hunting territory, it's for the big bucks. Frank cites H.L. Mencken's definition of a wealthy man: "one who earns...