Word: swords
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...worried that a Supreme Court ruling against Boston Latin could be used as a sword to end all racial preferences in public secondary schools, especially prestigious magnet schools. In New York City, where the four specialized high schools admit students strictly on the basis of an entrance test, black and Hispanic students represent fewer than 10 percent of those enrolled. Next year, when Boston Latin switches to a temporary race-blind admissions policy, some estimate black and Hispanic enrollment could drop to 13 percent; system-wide, black and Hispanic students make up 75 percent of Boston's 64,000 students...
...that's an iffy proposition. Mark Mooradian, a senior analyst with Jupiter Communications, points out that Case may soon discover that Netscape is a double-edged sword. AOL's old mandate was simple: get as many people as possible onto its service. Now that it's a sprawling, vertically integrated e-commerce company, nasty intramural conflicts are inevitable. When Jeff Bezos upgrades Amazon.com's server software, for instance, will he buy it from AOL, which is the host for arch-competitor Barnes & Noble? Will the Internet service providers who compete with AOL choose Navigator as their browser, and thus enrich...
...title your article "The Sword of Islam," and why use the metaphor of Pakistani rulers "waving the scimitar of Islam" [WORLD, Sept. 28], unless the intent is to portray all forms of Muslim political activism as stridently militant? It is wrong to perpetuate such crude stereotypes. Pakistan is a country in which a politically and religiously diverse populace is struggling for its survival in the face of many serious challenges. You could have given your readers probing insights into how the country is faring on all these fronts and how the different political appeals to so-called Islam are being...
...have managed. Moreover, the production was excellent when it came to spectacle--a dazzling and chilling set of scenes at the play's center revolved around the play-within-a-play, featuring masks, musicians and a tremendous rendition of "Hecuba" monologue by Player King Dan Berwick '01--and the sword-fight at the end was all it had been cracked up to be. Spectacle, in Hamlet, can go a long...
...Arafat's U.N. campaign is designed to win maximum international support for a unilateral declaration of independence in May 1999, but that too could be a double-edged sword. Washington is unlikely to recognize the new state a year before Al Gore runs for president, while recognition by European countries may signal a sense of closure on the Palestinian question: "Recognizing a small Palestinian state allows the international community to wash its hands of the Palestinian issue," says Beyer. But with Netanyahu showing little sign of advancing the peace process on any other front, Arafat may well feel that...