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...problem through tax cuts, defense hikes, or constructing more shelters for the homeless. But Boston is a city on the move, as Kevin White always said with a quivering voice, a city about to become an international center for culture and commerce. Such a city cannot afford the stigma of racism that Boston earned during the mid-seventies' forced busing fracas...
Busing, or more precisely the fact that U.S. District Judge W. Arthur Garrity tried as a symbolic gesture to bus Blacks into the most Irish of Boston neighborhoods, Southie, "exacerbated the latent racial tensions that existed in Boston and gave Boston a national stigma," White says...
...Saturday afternoon the Elis were finally able to dump their woes and the stigma of going 0-for-the-eighties. They dumped it squarely on the Crimson, posting a 13-5 victory...
...their popularity and remain saddled with myriad difficulties: the fitful 41-month war with archenemy Iraq, which continues to drain men and money; a ruling class already decimated, and always threatened, by tenacious urban guerrillas; 2 million refugees from the front and another 1.5 million from Afghanistan; and the stigma of international isolation. But during a rare ten-day visit to the country, which has remained virtually closed to Americans since 1979, a TIME reporter found that the Ayatullah's regime has managed, for the moment, to weather these challenges with surprising agility. It has settled nearly...
...school system geared primarily toward accomodating the status quo, academically gifted children have always been a thorn in the side of educational policy makers. If educators support funding for academic programs tailored to gifted students, they perpetuate the unjustified, though in most cases understandable, stigma of elitism surrounding such programs and risk alienating the parents of less talented children. Conversely, if national policy makers neglect gifted children at the expense of the majority, those who have the money go to private schools, while those who cannot, become bored, unchallenged, and fall through the cracks of the school system...