Word: presenters
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...hasn't always been this way. The US prison population has increased nearly 400% since 1980. A study by the Brookings Institution suggests that if our prison population continues to increase at the present rate, half of America will be in prison by the year 2053. Clearly, something must be done. The prisons are full, they are incredibly expensive, and prisons perpetuate, rather than eradicate, crime...
During the panel, Wang traced the history of discrimination against Asian-Americans from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to the present...
...intolerance as a racist article. Comic strips are easily read and this gives them an opportunity to convey their (negative) message. Furthermore, comic strips rarely incite the intellectual analysis and discussion necessary to combat the racist imagery --the audience digests the stereotypes almost unconsciously. Most of all, comic strips present visual symbols that exert strong influence over public perception of minorities. It stands for the intolerance and dehumanization Asian-Americans have faced and continue to face in this great nation...
...will come from many individuals who have the opportunity to act on their immediate self-interest. Unfortunately, when seas get rough, there is nothing to stop investors from sinking the lifeboats in their zeal to abandon ship. Robert Shiller, author of Irrational Exuberance, which explores the perils of the present market, once devised a survey to probe whether investors felt any responsibility to the overall system. When asked whether they might reduce selling in a crash out of a sense of social responsibility, only 8% of 123 institutional investors responded...
...glancing at Walter Kirn's "Thanks for Asking" [ESSAY, March 27], my wife was trying to give good-faith answers on the long census questionnaire. What more is needed than to stand up and say "present"? This is what we did when we started school in the 1920s. HARDY AND FRANCES HAY San Diego