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...Network of the Next Century" -- and the value of the two companies soared on the prospect of a broadband portal. Doerr's firm Kleiner Perkins was at the center of the deal, having helped launch both companies (which not so coincidentally were across the street from each other in Redwood City, California). More...
...Families have Ed to thank when they gaze at sea lions on the California coast, hike among redwood trees or bicycle through Golden Gate Park," McGrady said...
...steadfast commitment to carry on the fight. Also, it is important to note that anti-affirmative-action initiatives for higher education have won in only two states; that can hardly be called a victory. I plan to continue to work for equal opportunity through affirmative action. RENE REDWOOD Washington...
...brought their SAT scores up to those of whites. We wouldn't be arguing about whether letting more blacks into the best colleges meant lowering standards. But between 1988 and 1998, the gap between average black and white SAT scores widened slightly, from 189 points to 194 points. To Redwood, that is a warning that something has gone terribly wrong with the way we are schooling our children. It's a crisis that affirmative action simply cannot resolve...
...pains her, but when Redwood talks about why this has happened, she sounds a bit like Connerly. "Sometime in the 1980s, a sense of entitlement began to replace blacks' sense of doing things for ourselves," she contends. "We started getting away from the values I was raised with--you should not bring a child into the world unless you were prepared to care for it; you had to be twice as good as whites; nothing less than an A was good enough." That erosion in values, Redwood believes, is a major cause of the "performance gap" that has undercut white...