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...past 120 years, Alcorn State University, situated on a remote Mississippi campus, has been attended almost exclusively by blacks. It is typical of the nation's 47 historically black state-run colleges, most of them in the Deep South, which were founded as the stepchildren of a segregated public education system. The institutions were eventually touted as providing "separate but equal" training for blacks excluded from universities such as Ole Miss. What was missing, mostly, was equality: the schools were underfunded, understaffed and ignored, a condition that persists in varying degrees today...
Contrary to the national trends, black college enrollment in Mississippi is declining. The state's three historically black state-run schools -- Alcorn State, Jackson State and Mississippi Valley State -- educate the majority of black residents who go on to college. In 1981 the three schools graduated 1,353 students, while the predominantly white universities graduated 584 blacks. By 1990 the number of degrees granted at black schools had dropped to 935, while predominantly white schools awarded only 610. Contends Alvin O. Chambliss Jr., a Mississippi legal aid lawyer who has shepherded the plaintiffs' case from its outset: "Our black colleges...
...When state-run lotteries first became popular in the late 1970s, "instant millionaires" were the isolated stuff of media sensation. Now Porchia, Ryan and Palermo are part of something else entirely: an expanding niche of American society filled with overnight plutocrats. As lottomania has swept the nation, one result is an entirely new social stratum of millionaires, over 3,000 in all, and more are added each month. With some prizes soaring past nine digits (the largest: $118 million in California last April), a few recipients even approach being superrich. But America's pot-of-gold winners...
...grant Israel's request for $10 billion in housing-loan guarantees may not be just a ploy to press the Shamir government to talk peace with its Arab neighbors. Some of Bush's advisers make an economic argument: they see little difference between Israel's economy and the state-run mess in the Soviet Union. "We've had some suggestions -- including some from Israelis -- that the worst thing we can do is send a $10 billion loan guarantee to the socialist system in place in Israel," says a senior official. Bush is considering a plan that would channel...
...projects have been designed, financed and carried out by the state, drawing on the expertise of the private sector but relying heavily on the leadership of specialized civil servants. All involve large state-run companies and secretive interlocking bureaucracies where public scrutiny is limited. All are controversial. The nuclear power program, its detractors claim, is a Big Idea gone haywire: too many reactors producing too much electricity. The state-of-the-art telecommunications network is heavily larded with gee-whiz gadgetry that is often user-mysterious and wastefully expensive. And rather than decentralizing the nation, the high-speed trains emphasize...