Word: whites
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According to most accounts, the event was Dramatic. Epic. Heroic. Our boys in red, white and blue persevered through sand and rough. Justin Leonard's 45-foot Shot Heard Round the World was a thundering triumph for democracy. Our NATO allies were sent home empty-handed...
That's complicated by district caps for the percentage of white, black and "other" students in each school. Particularly in racially imbalanced neighborhoods, students may be barred from attending schools of their choosing or even schools near their homes because of these caps...
...Rudenstine's agenda was a meeting with six other university presidents and members of the White House staff. He also had a lunch meeting with members of Congress...
Seven university presidents, including Rudenstine, met with administrators from the White House, like Clinton policy aide Gene Sperling and Chief of Staff John Podesta, to encourage them to be more generous in the funds allocated for science--especially physical sciences...
...group of New England educational leaders, led by Rudenstine and Tufts University President John DiBiaggio, recently traveled to Washington to lobby legislators and White House officials, including Chief of Staff John Podesta. We hope that Congress and the Clinton Administration will listen to the universities and maintain, if not increase, current research efforts. The programs are threatened by the federal spending caps enacted by Congress during the 1997 budget agreement, which allowed President Clinton and then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich to claim victory while delaying the hardest choices for a few election cycles. The result is that even...