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...discuss. Northwest is the largest quadrant. It is predominantly rich and white and has a reputation as being the safest part of the city. Most interns live in the famous Georgetown and Dupont Circle neighborhoods of Northwest. The eastern quadrants of the city, particularly Southeast, are predominantly minority and poorer and have a more dangerous reputation. Being confronted by the disparity between those reputations has been an education unlike any other...
Gates' first great non-Microsoft project, started in 1997, was paying billions to wire America's libraries. He deployed high-tech task forces that fanned out across the U.S. equipped with computers, modems and software, bridging the digital divide for poorer school districts. There is a room on the second floor of the Gates Foundation's new Seattle office complex that is command central for that initiative, where huge national maps are studded with pins showing which library districts have been wired--22,530 computers in 4,540 libraries in the U.S. and 4,024 computers in 1,435 libraries...
...impossibly wealthy Americans who would have benefited from the estate tax repeal? Your voters want wider health care coverage, certain social security and safety from crime. They don't particularly want the rich (look directly at Bush when you say this) to keep getting richer, while the poor get poorer. Talk about bringing the fruits of economic success to everyone's table...
...minute long speech, Sen also made several pointed criticisms of the inequality within the U.S. While African-Americans in the U.S. are poorer than whites, he said, they are richer than people in developing countries...
...admissions officers try to use other test scores to gauge academic accomplishment, such as Advanced Placement (AP) tests. But Fitzsimmons acknowledges that even AP tests and other tests are all correlated with a person's socioeconomic status. Poorer schools may not have the resources to offer AP classes...