Word: seek
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...what these French seek to prevent, others call a dream come true--the emergence of a universal culture. Should we really by trying to stop this phenomenon or should we be rolling out the red carpet and celebrating its arrival? Or does what is happening in France indicate the ugly truth that a universal culture can never exist because each country will fight to preserve...
Police officers should receive better training in suspect identification and sensitivity toward minorities. They should be strictly instructed that any racist behavior will be severely punished. Harvard should also seek to hire more minority police officers, and officers with records of discriminatory conduct should be fired...
Next week Mandela will become the President of the country whose government he fought against for so long. Leading a liberation struggle is a task fundamentally different from heading a government; Mandela will no longer seek to bring a system down but to build one up. Yet his style of leadership is suited to his new task, for he is a practiced seeker of unity and consensus...
...hope rests with the quiet revolution launched last week by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros. Rejecting calls to reserve public housing for the poorest of the poor, the Administration is proposing a series of economic incentives designed to create mixed-income developments where the role models Lane seeks (mostly poor too, but working nonetheless) can live without bankrupting themselves. To this end, HUD will shortly amend its rules so local authorities can prefer working families over welfare recipients as they fill apartment vacancies from waiting lists that now total an astonishing 6 million people nationwide. Rent caps...
...that. While the President will be sending off an often rebellious Democratic colleague who opposed him on last year's budget bill, Boren could be replaced by an even more consistent foe: a Republican. Coming just eight weeks after Senate majority leader George Mitchell announced that he will not seek another term, Boren's decision is the latest in a string of congressional retirements that are likely to spell trouble for Clinton in the midterm congressional elections in November. Boren is the sixth Democratic Senator to retire voluntarily this year...