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...fights ought not be taken as proof that national standards are unworkable. National standards serve a much more ambitious cause than the sats, and also a nobler one - not identifying a few very smart students regardless of background, Cinderella style, but trying to ensure that all students reliably acquire basic educational skills and therefore a meaningful chance in life...
...cult of anti-intellectualism," as John McWhorter, a black professor at the University of California, Berkeley, claims in his recent book, Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America. Despite all the fuss about some black teenagers' disparaging their more studious peers for "acting white," most of us, regardless of age or where we stand on the economic ladder, value high achievement as much as anyone. Our problem is not cultural. It's political and psychological. Too many of us have forgotten that we are still engaged in a struggle for racial redemption that involves, among other things, beating whites...
Panelists emphasized that blocking and rooming issues can be a problem for all students, regardless of rooming situations...
Another argument against hate-crimes legislation is that it would allow prosecutions based on the motivation for a crime, which some argue should not be a consideration. Opponents of the legislation argue that all crimes should be prosecuted equally, regardless of motivation. Yet, our criminal justice system already prosecutes the same crime differently based on different circumstances. For example, the difference between first-degree murder and second-degree murder is based on the planning involved in the crime. Our society believes murders that involve prior planning deserve to be more severely punished than spontaneous killings. Accordingly, a first-degree murder...
...place where you can watch others. For me, the best place will always be the Garden, regardless of the sport. It's a good place for me to look up and see Reed's No. 19 hanging from the Garden rafters and envision Sergei Bubka soaring through the air seemingly just inches below it, close enough to touch the banner if he really wanted...