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...shot in what will prove to be a long, protracted but ultimately valuable debate about race and education in Boston Public Schools (BPS). Boston’s famously contentious busing program was a watershed when first instituted in 1974. The court order, issued by Judge Arthur W. Garrity, to racially integrate Boston’s public school system opened a rift along racial lines, the vestiges of which have haunted the city since; images of South Boston residents hurling bricks at school buses have remained etched in the city’s collective memory...
...bluff and bluster. He refused to apologize for the McNabb jab, saying he was only attacking the liberal media, and added that he was unfairly singled out: "Sean Hannity [a right-wing spieler] could have said it, and ... it wouldn't have even gotten noticed." True enough: racial slurs and racist humor are common in the frat-house atmosphere of talk radio, whether the format is politics (Michael Savage, Bob Grant) or comedy and news (Howard Stern, Don Imus). But a Sunday morning TV sports show--on a cable network that prizes its access to black athletes--is different...
Rosenberg and Karabell read excerpts from their book Kennedy, Johnson, and the Quest for Justice: The Civil Rights Tapes, a compilation of transcripts of the presidents’ conversations during their dealings with racial injustice in 1960s America. 3 p.m. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass...
...broadly they define the merit that underpins meritocracy. Nobody wants a British-style system, where academic test scores are all that matter. But colleges recognize musical talent, reward unique life experiences and the overcoming of adversity, and recently established a “compelling interest” in racial diversity at the Supreme Court. What, if anything, separates prowess on the playing field from talent on the trombone...
...through a numbers game. But requiring half of college athletes to have achieved SAT scores and class ranks better than 16 percent of their class doesn’t mean that they are particularly representative of their peers, who lead a completely different lifestyle. Why should the racial, economic, or geographic diversity athletes offer be prized, while the one attribute that unites them—sports—be held against them as unrepresentative? Didn’t colleges just win a Supreme Court case preserving affirmative action by convincing justices of the value of diversity? Aren?...