Word: anyways
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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George Bush, an aristocrat who hates to deny crumbs to anyone, vetoed the bill anyway, on the ground that it encouraged racial quotas. But the bill was more than just bad legislation. It was a sign of intellectual bankruptcy in our thinking about race. As race relations worsen, as ethnic divisions harden, as an ex-Nazi pulls nearly as many votes in Louisiana as did the 1988 Democratic presidential candidate, the country has run out of ideas...
HOME ALONE. And a little child shall lead them. To the box office, anyway. This crafty comedy about an impish boy abandoned at home on Christmas Eve will reach the $100 million mark this week...
...scholarships established by private organizations like the United Negro College Fund remain legal. Colleges may also continue to take race into account in awarding money so long as it is not the only factor involved -- and financial need rather than race is often the dominant consideration in scholarship aid anyway...
...blame it on whites," he explains. "In integrated schools, white teachers are often afraid to make strong demands on black kids." At Dumas, that means offering sympathy that a student's parents had a fight the previous night but then insisting on the need to do one's homework anyway. Bart Simpson, in short, is a lousy role model; try Martin Luther King...
Washington would continue to try to deny Saddam a p.r. victory by maintaining that such a conference was in no way connected to the gulf crisis. The Bush Administration could argue that the Arab-Israeli conflict needed to be dealt with anyway, a position consistent with well-established U.S. policy. But everyone would know the truth -- that the gulf crisis had precipitated the conference -- and Saddam would be able to portray himself as the hero of the Palestinians...