Word: subject
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Berry wrote in a fax that he will "have to review and update this 'high v controversial subject...
Glass is something of an expert on the subject, having spent the past two years reporting on two Chicago public schools--Taft High School and Washington Irving Elementary School...
Mansfield want to "stomp out" the Strategic Offense Society for pointing out the racism that he would like to cloak in the form of jokes. We're hurting his image. Although bigotry is omnipresent, blatant forms are unacceptable causes an openly racist person is subject to social condemnation. Why does Mansfield fit in so well here at Harvard? Because he has mastered the paradoxical art of being a bigot while arguing from an institutionally supported "intellectual" position. Henry Louis Gates and A. Leon Higginbotham have noted that The Bell Curve proves that it is not the uneducated racist...
...Democratic assault on the G.O.P.'s plans for a Medicare overhaul continued unabated. Attacking hearings on the subject as inadequate, rushed and stacked, Democrats walked out of a House Commerce Committee session devoted to the G.O.P.'s proposal, which seeks to channel more seniors into private insurance and HMO plans. Senate Democrats unveiled an alternate plan that they said would keep the current system intact and save $89 billion, a third of the sum advocated by Republicans...
...Generation X musings seem perfectly dead--or at least you wish they were. Douglas Coupland always struck you as lame and were it not for a single term he co-opted, he would be utterly irrelevant. Yet the subject still crops up. Now Generation X is embattled by its own constituents who protest that no, they really are not lazy, cynical and inarticulate, and that (yawn) life does have reaning...