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The result, some educators fear, will be a widening chasm between a few richly endowed institutions able to buy the very best applicants and a growing legion of poorer colleges, public and private, forced to use scarce money to attract good students--money that might be better spent on a...
No current book, however, delves more deeply into the nuances of the movement era than Diane McWhorter's Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Movement (Simon & Schuster; 701 pages; $35). For McWhorter, this is not only history but also autobiography. A native of Birmingham...
MACEDONIA Widening Conflict Macedonian security forces struggled to contain the insurgency by ethnic Albanian rebels as fighting spread to the center of Tetovo and the outskirts of the the capital, Skopje. Government troops shot dead two civilians in Tetovo after they appeared to hurl a handgrenade at a police checkpoint...
A widening defense scandal threatened to topple Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and his ruling coalition government. By week's end, six Indian ministers, including Defense Minster George Fernandes, had left the government; an important coalition partner had withdrawn its support and all business in parliament had come to a...
Moreover, it's timely that this fall's presidential race, a contest between expanding market forces and the widening responsibilities of the state, featured a Harvard man, Vice President Al Gore '69, and a Yale man, Texas Gov. George W. Bush. Bush also graduated from Harvard Business School, although it...