Word: schoolchildren
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...doubling the true cost, critics charged. Ashcroft appealed the federal-court ruling all the way to the Supreme Court, which refused to hear the case. "The 22 school districts' agreeing to take this step was extraordinary," says William L. Taylor, who represented the N.A.A.C.P. and a class of black schoolchildren as plaintiffs. "You'd think a state leader like Mr. Ashcroft would recognize that and support it as an act of racial reconciliation...
...fact that standing out from the crowd can actually be a good thing (which, to be honest, had never occurred to me in my entire life). After a few months I hardly noticed that anything odd was happening - just another day, just another workout, just another crowd of schoolchildren yelling and pointing...
...there's more. Bush staged the most inclusive Republican Convention in memory, surrounded himself at every chance with poor schoolchildren whom he promised he would not leave behind--and in the end won a smaller percentage of the African-American vote than any Republican since Barry Goldwater. The comics joked that he won 100% of the black vote where it mattered most--on the Supreme Court--but Bush himself admits that the greatest misconception about him is that he is not racially sensitive. He can staple Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice to his side, but it won't change...
...woman who developed a machine for hair permanents or the man who patented the automatic traffic signal. Officials from the Patent Office, which reports that only 6% of patent applications come from blacks, hail Johnson as a role model and cite his Super Soaker to capture the imagination of schoolchildren...
...then returned home to Carthage, Tenn., voting with his wife Tipper at the Forks River Elementary School in the town of Elmwood in the early afternoon, and then giving an impromptu civics lesson to schoolchildren...