Word: sides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...buried business of the panel was the unending fight between those of us who are for equal opportunity and those who are for equal outcomes. And the President, though he favors both, inevitably winds up on the side of preferences. He talked about a diverse student body being educational in itself, but that sort of wishful thinking supports the notion that self-esteem is more important than physics. Better to try to achieve equal outcomes from the bottom up. A President can't do much about race relations, but if Clinton got off the affirmative-action barricades...
According to Veneziano the field was not off kilter because of some dim-witted mistake. A track that encircled the field until 1982 needed six lanes instead of four on one side in order to accommodate sprinters...
Insecure with the conflict that England has studiously avoided on the home front, both sides--whites and blacks alike--have behaved like irascible children on the playing fields. A blow from one side incites a retaliation by the other, but neither will voice the undeniable truth: England must move into the 21st century. It must change its image of an old boys club where highly-educated, aristocratic men play at ruling the world and admit to what it really is--a nation with more poor than rich and a large population of black citizens who deserve a voice...
Innocence does not last forever, and children learn what adults teach them. I fear that England, set in her ways, is unready to teach her children to see not black and white but the multitude of brilliant colors that surround them. For what has happened, I cannot blame one side or the other; they are both to blame. I can only find the victims: Stephen and his mother, Doreen, and his father, Neville...
...thought I had, until on the other side of the bridge the blue van suddenly cut in front of me causing me to slam on my brakes and horn. I sped to the right and away, faster than that blue van ever could go. I see the incident as my own fault, even though driving with one's windows open should be an inalienable right. The world just isn't a safe place, and it's best to be scared, to protect oneself and to stay in safe situations...