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...social contacts are not increasing," continued Williams, who said Black liberals nonetheless recognize the relevance of conservative ideas. "The so-called Black liberals see that the solutions they've been calling for are not working," Williams says. "So now they use the term self-help. They're talking about the devastating affects of crime. They're saying things that couldn't have been said before we came along...
Last night's discussion inaugurated the Kennedy School's new Center for Health and Human Resources Policy, which was established this summer. Mary Jo Bane, the center's director and a professor of public policy, said that her priorities will include chronicling the progress of the movement "toward self-help and less toward a system forgiving out checks...
Reagan had chose Loury for his outspoken conservative views, which included attacks on national civil rights leaders and affirmative action policies. Loury has argued in numerous speeches and articles that Blacks are "stigmatized' by affirmative action policies and need to develop "self-help" strategies to improve their social and economic standing...
Part memoir, part self-help manual, Everything to Gain combines some rather obvious advice on how to stay healthy (do not smoke, fasten seat belts, exercise regularly) with strikingly candid personal reflections. After the 1980 presidential defeat, Rosalynn reveals, she was reluctant to give up the dream that her husband might again run for President and win. Daughter Amy, then 12, announced that she did not want to live in Plains, Ga. "You may be from the country," she said. "But I'm not." (She went to boarding school instead.) On a lighter note, the Carters write that...
Loury has taken critical stands againstaffirmative action and questioned the views ofnational civil rights leaders in numerous speechesand writings. He advocates what he calls a"self-help" philosophy for Blacks and argues thatpreferential treatment for minorities"stigmatizes" all successful Blacks...