Word: supportable
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...succeeding decades, students at Harvard and across the nation broadened their protest to include a call for ethnic studies departments, institutional structures to support the study of the various ethnicities that make up our national population...
Harvard now boasts a Latino Studies Initiative and a South Asian Studies Initiative, among other groups, but the goals of these groups are different, and those who support ethnic studies no longer present a united front...
Despite Republican attempts to bolster public support for their tax cut over the August recess, polls continued to show that tax cuts are not a priority for most Americans. The GOP's 10-year, $792 billion tax cut would drain funds away from social programs like education in order to give those in the top tax brackets what the Republicans are calling "tax relief". In fact, the tax cut would overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy, not increase median incomes for the shrinking middle class...
...with Hamas. "Jordan itself has no problem with Hamas, and this clampdown is being undertaken on behalf of Israel and the Palestinians," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. "But Jordan will always put its own stability above the interests of Israel and of Arafat, and Hamas enjoys the support of the man in the street in Jordan. There?s a lot of opposition in Jordan to normalizing relations with Israel, and the government will be wary of sparking a backlash among Jordanians...
Watch for emerging support groups for working parents trying to deal with the sudden absence of guilt in their lives. According to Ellen Galinsky?s new book, "Ask the Children: What America?s Children Really Think About Working Parents," the majority of kids in dual-income households feel they spend enough time with their parents. Only 10 percent of the 1,000 children Galinsky interviewed wish they could spend more time with their moms, while 16 percent want more of their dads? time. Many parents who were interviewed predicted their kids would want them to stop working, while in fact...