Word: whited
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...Participants joined in an intensive series of workshops, panel discussions and other activities beginning last Wednesday. A keynote address was delivered Monday morning by Marie C. Wilson, founder of Take Our Daughters to Work Day. Wilson is president of the Ms. Foundation and president of the White House Project, an organization seeking to create the political conditions for women to launch successful presidential campaigns...
...scale of the crisis ? in greenhouse gas emissions envisaged in the landmark Kyoto accord signed in 1997 was rejected 95-0 by the Senate. After all, no legislator wants to tell his or her voters to get rid of their SUVs. "So instead of handling environmental problems, the White House is forced to spend its time figuring out how to handle Congress, where a large group of politicians is committed to parochial concerns in order to stay in office," says Dowell. "They?re sacrificing our future in the interests of staying in office in the present...
...creative lawmakers have already have exempted nearly $28 billion in proposed spending from the caps ? largely through "emergency" spending ? even with only a 12-month year. That might be too expedient, even for the Beltway. "There are those in both parties who are saying, ?Enough is enough,?" says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "Nobody wants to be the one to admit it, but the spending caps are going to have to be raised if Congress is ever going to do its books without all the tricks." After all, even a phantom month has to be paid for eventually; putting...
MAKE IT EASY Choose a variety of garments, including jumpers, overalls, shorts and skorts, as well as skirts and pants, in classic, comfortable styles. Jayne White, an education professor at Missouri's Drury College, believes that young people cannot appear to be "walking robots--they need to keep some identity of their own." The clothes should be made by various companies and be available in many local stores in a wide price range. With the help of community groups and fund raisers, your school should be able to provide uniforms to families who cannot afford them and to keep some...
Bill Sims and Karen Wilson meet in 1967 in Ohio, where Bill, who is black, is regularly harassed for consorting with a white girl. The family eventually moves to Queens, N.Y., and thrives as a benevolent, good-humored fortress. But as elder daughter Cicily finds at college, the outside world eventually intrudes. The most hurtful prejudice she encounters is from black classmates--a situation that comes to a head when she spends a semester in Africa that deepens and complicates her identity. And yet that self-fulfilling racist caution, "What about the children?," hardly obtains. Both Cicily and her sister...