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...federal politicians are pushing hardest to extend family caps everywhere. Missouri Representative Jim Talent is honest enough to say, "We may have to revisit the scholarly underpinnings of our argument, but on the other hand, everyone has a study, right?" Florida Representative Clay Shaw, who pushed the family cap through the House, simply ignores the Rutgers findings: "We have found through our studies that there are kids out there who are having children because of the cash they're going to receive...
...journal's editorial board includes professors from several American and foreign universities, as well as CNN's Bernard Shaw and former ambassador Hushang Ansary...
...Brown -- "to support the theory that black students suffer an unspecified psychological harm from segregation that retards their mental and educational development. This approach not only relies upon questionable social-science research rather than constitutional principle, but it also rests on an assumption of black inferiority." This, notes Ted Shaw, the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Education Fund lawyer who represented the plaintiffs in the Jenkins case, "is probably the first time a Supreme Court Justice has questioned the reasoning in Brown." That it came from a black, says Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, a former aide to Martin Luther King...
Because Thomas is black, says Shaw, "the positions he takes in race cases give a little bit more encouragement to other Justices who advance views that are at odds with those of most black Americans." The court will soon rule on another vital issue: whether it is constitutional to create majority black districts so that African Americans can be elected to Congress. As they await Thomas' vote, a lot of blacks besides Wyatt Tee Walker are feeling queasy all over again...
...enough of trail tours? The BlackHeritage Trail begins at the Shaw-54th RegimentMemorial in Boston Common. This monument honorsthe first regiment of Black volunteers from thenorth to fight in the Civil War, as well as theircolonel, Harvard College graduate Robert GouldShaw (played by Matthew Broderick in Hollywood'sportrayal, "Glory...