Word: taylors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...summit they've had," says Time's Marguerite Michael's. "There are two ways to stop the fighting. One is to come in with heavy firepower and force the combat to stop, the other is to make some sort of economic deal with the warlords. The problem is that Taylor and Johnson will not quit fighting while they are making money off the war, exploiting timber and diamond mines. The West let this war go on until it drove Liberia back into a 10th century situation with a set of feudal economic dominions. One summit conference is not going...
...five-minute drive away from Young Park stands Taylor Elementary. This is the neighborhood school of white children from the large houses on the surrounding tree-lined streets; and of black children from nearby, mostly working-class neighborhoods. Sixty-one percent of Taylor's 433 children are white, and only 30% qualify for the free-lunch program. One hundred percent of the children's parents are in the pta, which runs 22 committees. In 1994, 88% of Taylor's fourth-graders surpassed national norms on standardized tests. At Young Park...
...great deal of social engineering went into creating school segregation in the first place, points out William Taylor, a Washington lawyer who has worked on civil rights cases for 40 years. Taylor laments what he sees as the courts' "peculiar notion that segregation is the natural condition and desegregation goes against the natural order of things. The court's own finding in Brown was that segregation had been imposed by law and practice for many years. Missouri is a good example. You have racially restrictive covenants, racially restrictive ordinances. The notion that somehow segregation came about all because of people...
According to Taylor, the University did not intend for a warrant to be issued after the restitution was made, but the court is required to issue a warrant when the defendant does not appear for arraignment...
...family has made full restitution and the University has informed the District Attorney that we do not wish to prosecute," Taylor said...