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Earlier this year the U.S. Mint issued a silver dollar commemorating the event, and throughout the anniversary's week there will be other observations marking this turning point in U.S. history. But the joy will be somewhat muted, for American schools are still nearly as segregated as they were 50 years ago. Almost three-quarters of African-American students are currently in schools that are more than 50% black and Latino, while the average white student goes to a school that is 80% white, according to a 2001 study by the National Center for Education Statistics. Similarly, a 2003 study...
...Desperate to restore order, the U.K. Treasury put its own money (meaning the public's money) down. "I want to put the matter beyond doubt," Darling said. Customers' cash held by the bank "will be guaranteed safe and secure." Shares in Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley recovered somewhat on Tuesday as well...
Goodbye, World of Make-Believe My husband and I were somewhat disappointed to see the final issue of Weekly World News at the grocery store [Aug. 27]. No matter how exhausting the chore of grocery shopping was, we always got a chuckle from headlines like DICK CHENEY IS A ROBOT and, my all-time favorite, FORGET HELL, SCIENTISTS DISCOVER HECK. It can't be easy to make up stories like that. Lisa Amber, ST. GERMAIN...
Then we return to it again in September, and spend the rest of the year listening to a great deal of words wondering why it is we are by-and-large unhappy. While hardly the rule for every single student, discontent has become somewhat of a dogma. Exhaustion and disillusion become lifestyle fads, and many busy themselves thinking up clever new ways to prevent them...
...discussion of the composition of the lobby is similar, and more extensive, than the one in the original article, though the professors admit in the book that the lobby’s boundaries are “somewhat fuzzy.” At one point, they even write that “using the term ‘Israel lobby’ is itself somewhat misleading, insofar as many of the individuals and some of the groups in this loose coalition do not engage in formal lobbying activities...