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Waxman’s brief acknowledges that the federal government has a “perhaps compelling interest” in ensuring that its funds are not used to support racial or sex discrimination. But, according to the brief, the Solomon Amendment is not needed to prevent federal funds from going to support “some wrongful conduct...
...Many in the group think this really makes us feel like second-class citizens,” said. “If we were a [racial or ethnic] minority, this wouldn’t be the policy of the school...
...Many in the group think this really makes us feel like second-class citizens,” said. “If we were a [racial or ethnic] minority, this wouldn’t be the policy of the school...
...freed slaves is Coalhouse Walker, whose son and namesake will rage at the center of Ragtime. You sense that with this work Doctorow is inviting us to regard his novels as a career-length meditation on more than a century of the American past, with its bloodshed and racial obsessions, its hallucinatory edges and its complicated freedoms. The March is a more straightforward book than Ragtime. You won't find scenes here quite like the ones in that book in which J.P. Morgan and Henry Ford meet to trade views on the supernatural or Sigmund Freud takes Carl Jung...
...Capitol Hill, both parties are trying their best to harness the massive Katrina rebuilding effort to propel their own ideological agendas. Democrats view this as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to try to reduce poverty and racial inequality, touting more investment in public school construction and housing vouchers. At the same time, they are showing a renewed spirit in fighting the President's proposed Medicaid cuts and a slew of G.O.P. tax reductions that were on the verge of passage. But conservatives could see at least some of their handiwork in the Administration's initial proposals for job-training...