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...those medals hang about the necks of Whyte and Mleczko, the hockey pair has shown that they possess plenty of backbone to support them. We are the ones who should truly be "crazed" for these young women who refused to give up on the pursuit that struck gold...
...middle class still earns less, faces greater difficulty in securing occupational mobility, and faces greater risk of unemployment than otherwise comparable whites. Far more important, however, are four considerations. As sociologists Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro established in their award winning book, Black Wealth/White Wealth, the black middle class possess a fraction of the assets held by comparable whites. For example, the median level of wealth in white households they reported as $43,800, compared to only $3,700 in black households. In terms of net financial assets (subtracting debts) the respective figures are $6,999 to zero! Taking...
...these funds were bestowed by the military out of its own budget, the Solomon Amendment might possess some validity on the basis of quid pro quo logic. But these grants are totally unrelated to the armed services; their revocation would only prevent needy students from pursuing an education...
...Tigers possess probably the most lethal top line in the ECAC, with their combination of co-captain Casson Masters and juniors Jeff Halpern and Scott Bertoli. This trio has scored 23 of the team's last 44 goals and has 44 points over Princeton's last 13 games...
What was the meaning of the '60s? What is our inheritance from that tumultuous era? Few seemingly academic questions are as hotly contested in contemporary political battles. I do not possess the expertise to pass judgment on the meaning of the decade. But its legacy is an entirely different matter. It has less to do with what the decade actually meant, and more to do with what those 16-year-olds at the concert believe it meant. Those who remember the '60s favorably herald the decade as a triumph of progressive reform and popular empowerment. Maybe it was. But what...