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...contemplate a return to neighborhood schools. Hal Sieber, executive editor of the Carolina Peacemaker, a black newspaper, calls it a desire for "equal but separate" communities, a twist on the old doctrine of segregation. Sadly, the cycle of division, passed from parent to child, endures, as last winter's tempest at prestigious Page High School showed. A student newspaper poll on race relations prompted an outcry from black students, who complained about inadequate representation on the cheerleading squad and in advanced classes, among other things. Even a state championship basketball team drew fire for its all-white starting five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greensboro, North Carolina The Legacy of Segregation | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

...prepared for the weather, however. It's so windy in the courtyard that it might seem a more appropriate setting for The Tempest. But it is worth your while to brave the elements for this creative production of an old Shakespeare favorite...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: A Mid-afternoon Dream at Adams | 5/4/1990 | See Source »

...another department, and I find it puzzling that Professor Landes should characterize such incentives as indications of insecurity. Now that the issue is out in the open, however, it is disingenuous for anyone to claim that the differences between Sociology and Social Studies amount to a tempest in a teacup...

Author: By Orlando Patterson, | Title: Sociology is Sufficient | 4/5/1990 | See Source »

...think it's time the Harvard community[recognized] that this is not a tempest in ateapot," Patterson said. "Hopefully we can have arational discussion about these problems...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Soc. Stud. Demands Censure of Sociology | 4/5/1990 | See Source »

...York City's American Museum of the Moving Image. Triple-threat Walton has an Oscar, two Tonys and an Emmy for his work in film, theater and television. Whether creating a gleaming silver-and- white Deco hotel room for Lend Me a Tenor or a ship caught in The Tempest's hurricane, Walton gives life to a world suggested by words. Through August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 11, 1989 | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

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