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George W. Bush did better at the NAACP convention than Bob Dole did a few years back, but then again, Bush actually showed up. Dole never addressed the group, accusing NAACP president Kwesi Mfume of "trying to set me up" with his invitation. That wasn't a hard act to follow...
...must remember that a sign that in the past years has been consistently used to denigrate the progress of blacks has no place on state grounds. To remove the flag from the top of the capital building, only to hang one in a prominent place is, as NAACP President Kwesi Mfume has said, "added insult to injury...
...which party stands to benefit from sounding off on the percentage issue. Neither George W. nor Jeb Bush have made much hay of it lately, probably because it's a racially divisive subject. The NAACP and Urban League are firmly against the use of race-neutral percentages - NAACP head Kwesi Mfume recently called the policy "Jim Crow Jr." What's more, this is just the type of center-hugging policy that could drive right-leaning voters to the Reform party come election day. At the same time, it is a difficult policy for Democrats to attack since...
...keynote speech earlier that day, Kwesi Botchwey, director of Africa programs and research at the Harvard Institute of International Development and former finance minister for Ghana, offered statistics to illustrate the magnitude of the "brain drain...
...ceremony, three Harvard professors whostudy Africa, Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr.,Jeffrey D. Sachs '76 and Kwesi Botchwey, announceda new program from Harvard's Center forInternational Development (CID) to devote moretime to studying Africa and working with Africaninstitutions and scholars...