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Zelnick said that affirmative action perverts the intent of lawmakers in the 1960s who enacted federal legislation designed to eliminate all forms of racial inequality. By equating race with a form of merit, Zelnick added, racial-preference programs have sown the seeds of civil disharmony and racial strife in American society...
...unfortunate that one more person has fallen victim to gang violence, Shakur was no more important than the thousands of others who die from such violence every year. Music like his has contributed to America's violent gang culture. Gang members are finally reaping what they have sown. Shakur's death only serves as proof that he was not in fact an artist. Art has positive social aspects, which are badly missing from gangsta rap. DAVID FABRYCKY Wheaton, Illinois Via E-mail...
Cambridge's mayoral deadlock has sown seeds of conflict in the city's School Committee, members said yesterday...
...shaking, and I lost myself for a few moments. But I had to go on and pretend everything was usual." As he tells it, later "the mountain of earth grew," and "then one day at the end of June or early July, it was flattened and apparently sown, because after a while it looked like a green soccer field...
Even so, Bosnia is a dangerous assignment. Atop the worry list for everyone, from private in the field to general in the Pentagon, is land mines. Overall, experts think the former Yugoslavia has been sown with anywhere from 2 million to 6 million mines. The American sector is known to contain three big minefields plus heaven knows how many mines planted individually and in small clusters. Tore Skedsmo, a U.N. mine expert, says all sides in the Bosnian war--Serbs, Croats and Muslims--"were laying mines like mad" right up until Nov. 21, when the basic peace agreement was initialed...