Word: inferiority
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Dumas is far from perfect: its students still test below the Illinois state average; its physical plant is fraying; services are bad. "They send me inferior hamburger, moldy bread, spoiled milk," fumes Peters. But Dumas, with its emphasis on bootstrap help, is light-years ahead of most black public schools in the U.S. "There are several hundred black schools in Chicago alone, and most of them are still doing terribly," says Gary Orfield, a visiting professor at Harvard's graduate school of education...
...Kooning, July, 1956, which sold for $8.8 million against the estimates of $5 million to $7 million. It might have been a $15 million painting a year ago, but at least its price offset the fact that none of the other De Koonings in the sale -- all later or inferior works -- found buyers. Philip Guston's Summer, 1954, joined the De Kooning as one of the few paintings to exceed its high estimate -- $1.1 million, against estimates of $500,000 to $700,000. But again, nothing by Warhol sold, and Minimal art did badly across the board...
...Crimson has taken a commendable stand against the current admissions policy. The few people who doubted that Harvard admits many athletes and legacies of inferior academic ability should be convinced by new statistics that this is indeed the case. Harvard's admissions office should be convinced by the new statistics that this is indeed the case...
...many of them feel their schools are so inferior that there is no point in attending...
...also see Iraq as a potential model, with 17 million people, with all its resources, calling for the use of these resources not for themselves but for others. Many Arabs would like to achieve a degree of respect in the world; they no longer want to be treated as inferior. Obviously there is a lot of anger, a lot of resentment and a determination to get out of this situation. I'm not saying there is one individual who could achieve all these hopes, but Iraq represents change...