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...birth of this strange, violent, misfit child into a "normal" family is Lessing's way of observing that the middle-class is responsible for the existence of the underclass and must accept responsibilty for its behavior, whether brutal or apathetic. Savagery, according to Lessing, is a direct result of the selfishness and blindess of middle class existence. By choosing not to involve themselves in the social changes of their era, David and Harriet are guilty of an attempt to ignore the imperative for those changes...
...Wilson is making a fine, but important, correction to the culture of poverty thesis which also sees the ghettos as preserves of deviant behavior. For Wilson, the prevalence of single-parent households is not the result of a change in attitudes towards the traditional family, but rather the effect of economic forces which make it hard for men to support families. In his recent Godkin lecture at Harvard, Wilson noted that the latest survey research shows that the truly disadvantaged actually share mainstream attitudes towards work, family and crime...
...result, practices that would provoke lawsuits elsewhere go virtually unnoticed on Capitol Hill. "We have Congressmen who discriminate against blacks, against whites, against Hispanics, against women," says Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson. Says Jackie Parker of the Senate Black Legislative Caucus: "There are offices that employ no blacks at all." An investigation found that of the 152 Senate employees earning more than $70,000 a year, only 18 are women...
...quietly expanding scope of American Islam has become evident only as the result of new research. At a symposium at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Carol Stone, a doctoral student at Indiana University, estimated that there are 4,644,000 U.S. Muslims, with the largest concentration in California. The large majority of U.S. adherents are not affiliated with a mosque, but this is not for lack of opportunity. UMASS Historian Yvonne Haddad, who organized the Amherst sessions, counts more than 600 Islamic centers across...
Before a seminar is approved by Harvard, it has to receive the approval of a house committee on instruction. As a result, says Susan W. Lewis, who directs the seminar program, the seminars are often exceptionaly well-structured...