Word: urban
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Although my professors and my thesis advisor (a scholar in residence) have all been supportive, I do wonder about how things might have been different with more specialists in this important field. Scores of qualified professors of all colors nationwide have done extensive research on minority and urban politics. Undergraduates should not be obliged to flock to the one person of color who serves as the resident expert on issues in which minorities are involved. I believe that such a situation strongly resembles tokenism...
...pernicious influence extends beyond the Federal government into our nation's cities. The largely rural NRA has stood against local governments' attempts to regulate guns within urban crime areas. The NRA's mantra that "guns don't kill people, people do" rings hollow before the sound of gunfire and death on urban streets...
...just their own Beltway impulses? To see how a community confronts the prospect, two TIME correspondents spent a month examining the federal dependence of Fargo and its surrounding county, which reap $1.30 in benefits for every $1 in taxes the citizens send to Washington. While Fargo may lack the urban woes of larger cities, its federal take closely tracks the national average, and its share of spending closely matches the budget as a whole. Like most Midwesterners, the people of Fargo believe in the American myth of rugged self-reliance. And now they want to make it real...
...well-educated labor force and its low crime rate. Violent crime is a rarity here; there were only five homicides in the entire state last year. Not all the locals are working as much as they would like, but unemployment stands at 2%, and help wanted signs are everywhere. Urban Weber, regional manager for Job Service North Dakota, knew something had changed when Hardee's offered $6 an hour for hamburger flippers this spring. "I've never seen an economy like this," says Weber. "We've got more jobs than we've got people...
...ones belonging to the school. Barbara Ross, who teaches A.P. math at Highland Park High School in New Jersey, is so outraged by the new policy that last January she lodged a complaint with the American Civil Liberties Union. Acting on behalf of the A.C.L.U., Rutgers University's Urban Legal Clinic is preparing to challenge the requirement on the basis of, among other things, discrimination...