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Even as individuals, we Americans cannot define our political and moral identities without making them accountable to an estimate of racism's potency in American life. Our liberalism or conservatism, our faith in government intervention or restraint and our concept of social responsibility on issues from diversity to school reform--all these will be, in part, a response to how bad we think racism is. The politically liberal identity I was born into began to fade as my estimate of American racism declined. I could identify with a wider range of American ideas and possibilities when I thought they were...
...especially in the dwindling summer months - procrastinating any task that seems remotely effortful until some far off point we hope will never come. Of course, that point always does come, and it's usually not fun. Congressional lawmakers and White House staff negotiating the fine print of the education reform bill now find themselves in just such an undesirable spot, suddenly faced with all the sticky issues they saved for later...
...such words elicit nothing short of a tizzy from education reform advocates like Amy Wilkins of the Education Trust. "We can't come up with a definition of failure where all you have to be able to do is breathe to hop over it," she says...
...might also have to tone down its anti-Western rants against "hegemonic" powers like the U.S. And, if leaders are again faced with massive demonstrations, expect them to look harder for a compromise before issuing the shoot-to-kill order. None of these constraints will lead to sudden democratic reform, but University of California professor Richard Baum suspects the Olympics could give society more room to maneuver: "Not a panacea, but progress nonetheless." That careful diplomacy may already be in evidence: the day after the announcement, a Beijing court found U.S. academic Li Shaomin guilty of spying for Taiwan...
...Americans" that Social Security is "falling apart and that a radical solution is needed to fix it," says Congressman Robert Matsui, the senior Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee's Social Security subcommittee. "Unfortunately, this commission's foregone solution of individual [retirement]accounts is the worst possible reform for Social Security...