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Because Harvard risks losing out in scienceeducation to competitors such as Stanford,Princeton, MIT and the California Institute oftechnology, Spence wrote that the University mustdecide which scientific fields it can excel in,and devote new resources to them...
...well as a sexist and often racist rhetoric. The terror of being perceived as homosexual is used to scapegoat weaker members, and to instruct the rest as nonconformant with the desired image of power. And thus are reinscribed sexist machismo, racist intolerance, and hereterosexist assumption of the dominator--to excel in the military you must dominate the other side, conquer them. Misogyny persists with assertion of superiority and necessary justification of violence. Contrast this to the ambience of Robert Coles' "Literature of Social Reflection...
...crowded U.S. market is increasingly unforgiving to any automaker, foreign or domestic, that loses its way. After a fast start, sales of the South Korean-made Hyundai Excel have plunged. While Nissan has performed well in 1989 on the strength of higher-priced models like the Maxima, it suffered from poor sales between 1985 and 1988 because of weak marketing and a stodgy product line. Says Laurel Cutler, Chrysler's vice president of consumer affairs: "There's no market for products that everybody likes just a little. Anything that's boring is vulnerable. I would say that the midsize market...
...year-old black student and a middle-class American, I sometimes experience the type of racial discrimination you depict. Unfortunately, I more often encounter prejudice among members of my own race. I am seen as trying to be white if I excel or show ambition. I am even criticized because of the way I speak. We are defeating ourselves when we condemn one another for achievement. Healthy competition among blacks may be just the medicine our ailing race needs...
First the good news: American students have improved their basic reading, writing, math and science skills over the past 20 years. Now the bad news: few can apply that knowledge in ways that would help them excel in college, get a job or even perform the necessary tasks of daily life. "We have a solid foundation of basic skills," says Archie Lapointe, executive director of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (N.A.E.P.), which last week issued a far-ranging study on the subject. "But there is stagnation as far as high- order thinking skills are concerned...