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...obvious answer to that one -- provide better teaching -- is not always a priority at Harvard. As Shawn Rose, a senior from White Township, N.J., puts it, "All-star professors aren't necessarily all-star teachers." James Q. Wilson, for example, teaches a small section of his course on American politics but does so as if addressing the House of Lords. At a table of 15, he gazes over the heads of students, indulging the musty convention of calling them by their last names only. Yet Wilson is considered sprightly compared with peers like Economist James Duesenberry, dubbed the "Human Quaalude...
Even in South Africa, a country that has become almost numbed to racial violence, it was a night to remember -- or to try to forget. In Soweto, the sprawling African township (pop. 2 million) outside Johannesburg, three Land Rovers full of police pulled up to a burning roadblock constructed of garbage cans, tires, logs and scrap metal. Along the barricade stood a crowd of angry youths. Some Sowetans claim that the trouble actually started two hours earlier, when police broke up a meeting called to discuss the threatened eviction of people who were refusing to pay their rent. The government...
...next morning Soweto remained tense as security forces patrolled the streets in armored personnel carriers and other vehicles. For once, journalists were able to observe many of the events first-hand, since press restrictions had been relaxed two weeks ago as the result of court challenges. Inside the township, the comrades still manned most of their barricades. In White City, the section of Soweto where some of the worst bloodshed had occurred, activists refused to let residents go to work. Before the week was over, at least 20 people had been killed by police in the bloodiest confrontation since...
...underlying issue behind last week's violence was a rent strike, supported by a substantial portion of Soweto's black population, against the township's black councilors. The system of renting houses within the townships has been a source of resentment for years. Until recently, blacks were unable to purchase property in the townships because they were legally regarded as citizens of some distant "homeland." Last year, however, the government changed its policy and permitted them to buy township homes. Some 10,000 families have since done so, but most residents cannot afford the $800 or more that it costs...
Except for those relatively few dwellings that have been sold to private owners, all buildings in Soweto and the country's other black townships are the property of the government and are operated by the Ministry of Constitutional Development and Planning. In 1983 the running of the townships was turned over to black councils, though the administrators in overall charge continued to be white civil servants. Members of those councils were elected by township inhabitants at that time, but the voting was boycotted by 90% of the black electorate...