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Although students from the Harrington and Fitzgerald Schools will receive what D’Alessandro calls “priority transfer rights?? to move to any school within the district—which operates under a choice system for elementary school placement that balances for race and socioeconomic status—parents worry that the student bodies would be broken...
...enduring readers, we stand at a crossroads of history. On one side stand the Trumans and Deweys of the world, with their “civil rights?? and Negro athletes in hand ready to impose on anyone, anywhere. Shall we allow this? If Base-ball goes, it will not be long before football, basketball and golf succumb as well. Ice hockey, I am told, is safe for at least another hundred years...
...Today is the anniversåary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We must realize that there is a responsibility to live up to that declaration,” said Gumbleton. “We must remember that war is always a violation of human rights??the right to life, the most important of all rights...
Upon closer evaluation, however, it remains to be seen whether America—or any liberal democracy in the West, for that matter—should even want to be on this so-called “human rights?? commission. For example, on April 22 the commission voted 20-19 against a U.S. resolution to censure Iran for political murders, torture, brutal discrimination against minorities and violent restrictions of press freedom. A day later the Iranian regime tragically executed six young men who had, according to official government language, “disturbed public order...
...people of East Asia, as to much of the rest of the world.” Cohen credits this “beacon of liberty and prosperity” with enabling the growth of democracy (albeit flawed) in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, promoting “universal rights?? and helping “liberate” countries from Japanese imperialism and communism. This is, of course, if you overlook Vietnam, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, suppression of the Filipino independence movement and other lesser “transgressions...