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...tell. Mostly all the white people sit with the white people and the black people sit with all of the black people. At my high school it wasn't like that at all. I think it might have to do with Boston. Boston's one of the whitest cities in the nation...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett and Frances G. Tilney, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: In Yankee Country: Chitchat | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

...Annenbergs regale guests with vivid descriptions of the first-year dining hall's sweeping interior, and the Barkers boast proudly of the magnificent new humanities center, does everyone point and giggle at the namesake of Harvard's whitest elephant, Loker Commons...

Author: By George W. Hicks, | Title: Livin' La Vida Loker | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...Columbia, he pulled his ROTC duty. It was in Vietnam, he says, that he saw America for the first time, and it changed him. "I was really offended by the notion that this war was being fought largely by minorities and Southern whites," he said. Three years later, the whitest man in America was finance director for the mayoral campaign of a black man--Tom Bradley of Los Angeles. His next job was chief of staff for Jerry Brown, and Davis says he knew then that he wanted to be Governor. His mother traces the ambition back a little further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gray Davis: The Most Fearless Governor in America | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

Harvard can certainly boast one of the world's finest faculties. It can also boast of the world's whitest, malest, oldest, stodgiest, non-teachingest faculties. Much can be done to attract professors of diverse races, genders, ages, academic backgrounds and educational attitudes without sacrificing quality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A President With the Right Priorities | 1/24/1998 | See Source »

Whites have always bitten off black culture (the beatniks, rock 'n' roll, everything Quentin Tarantino has ever done). It gives them that cool, outsider image they so desperately need. But over the past few years, black kids have been taking fashion cues from the whitest of the white: ski gear, polo shirts, hiking boots, N.H.L. jerseys. The gold chains and dangling clocks of the '80s have been replaced with sweaters in bright primary colors with polo embroidered on the front. Jeans are in, but the baggier the better. Ski jackets are pumped up to Michelin Man proportions. Things have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Getting Giggy with A Hoodie | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

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