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...most promising courses seem determined to make attractively difficult material into familiar, almost banal, fare. Professor Michael Sandel's well-known and well-respected Core course concluded recently to a much deserved, if customary, standing ovation. "Justice," undoubtedly one of the best taught Cores, examines great philosophers and practical present-day applications of their theories, bringing daunting philosophies to bear on familiar contemporary debates...
Payzant argued that the city's present-day demographics mean that losing the "racial fairness" guidelines "would not have a dramatic impact on the composition of the schools...
What could explain this disconnect? Certainly not the real experiences of the present-day Delta, where racial integration was far more advanced than the plantations would suggest. As I drove from Memphis, Tenn., to Vicksburg and New Orleans, La., small details suggested that perhaps this was the New South after all--like the fact that all three cities have black mayors. Or the businesses where whites worked alongside blacks. Or the brand-new roads and schools serving mostly black small towns. The South being marketed for the tourists was far more reactionary than the real South just out the door...
...same goes for schools (Catholics and Protestants by and large go to segregated schools), pubs (also largely segregated) and neighborhoods (where to be a Catholic living in a Protestant area can put you in actual physical danger). The segregated Old American South, simply put, has nothing on present-day Belfast, and although there is hope that things will change in the months and years to come (especially with the implementation of the Good Friday Peace Agreement), one can hardly wipe away several centuries of animosity in the space of a mere decade...
...year Harvard was founded, Thomas Hooker, the first preacher in Newtowne--present-day Cambridge--and his congregation packed up and moved to what is now Hartford, Conn...