Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kerry was put on the defensive when a media panelist asked about allegations that Kerry accepted subsidized rent payments from members of the real estate industry who had business pending with the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development...
...course, drawing what Hemingway used to call juice from all those ill-fitting depictions. One of the better new novelists, Indian or otherwise, is Sherman Alexie (Reservation Blues, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven). His latest, Indian Killer (Atlantic Monthly Press; 420 pages; $22), is a murderous urban legend not calculated to calm anyone's racial unease. Rage builds slowly in the heart of John Smith, a decent but troubled Native American who was taken--stolen, actually--from his 14-year-old Indian mother and adopted by well-meaning whites. Unreconciled to his new life but unable...
Meanwhile, the Republicans are ready to let the middle class escape ineffective public schools for private ones, effectively leaving the public schools deserted. School vouchers will lead to a mass exodus of the privileged. Who else can afford the increasingly high tuition of private schools? In many urban areas, school boards do not have the necessary resources to realize the benefits of a Republican empowerment plan. They, too, misread the charts and vital signs on education. If Republicans pull the plug on failing public schools, they must offer a successful alternative. If not, a further segregation between the elite...
...right track for education. The President's medicine does not combat the right disease. Dole's prescription is equally inadequate. Neither party accounts for the shamefully deficient institutions that poor students are forced to attend. Does Dole expect quality private schools to spring up in America's urban jungles? Does Clinton believe that schools with asbestos and lead paint really need wiring to the Internet...
...chasm between the haves and have-nots increases generation after generation because of the great difference in educational opportunity. Since education is mostly paid by local taxes, the affluent neighborhoods are able to provide their students with benefits poor children cannot have. What happens to Jesse Jackson's urban canyons of despair? A poor family, living in a poor neighborhood, that sends its children to a poor school that educates them poorly and awards them worthless diplomas only creates more poverty. No wonder welfare can be a such a frustrating cycle! When America gets serious about rebuilding its cities...