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Members of the school committee will also look to make progress on broader, district-wide issues. Chief among those are reducing the racial disparity in student performance and, in the face of declining enrollment, reforming the city's system of racial quotas for distributing elementary and middle school students...
...equality, fairness, and family," Orr says. "But it's also important to recognize the progress that's been made...
Like its Middle Eastern equivalent, Northern Ireland's peace process is perennially in crisis. But Monday's secret report by the Canadian overseer of the arms-decommissioning process could be a decisive setback. General John De Chastelain is widely expected to find little progress toward IRA disarmament in his report to the governments of Britain and the Republic of Ireland, and that has the Protestant Ulster Unionist Party - the largest party in the territory's historic joint administration - once again threatening to walk out, a move that would collapse the Northern Ireland Assembly and restore direct rule from London. "Disarmament...
Until a few weeks ago, when Russian troops reached the outskirts of the provincial capital of Grozny, Chechen fighters had been strangely inactive. Moscow's generals attributed their unhindered progress to brilliant new tactics. When the advance bogged down around Christmas at the outskirts of the capital--where the besieging forces have remained ever since, pulverizing the city but making little progress--Moscow put an optimistic gloss on the situation. Through the tame media, Putin declared that everything was proceeding according to plan. Russian forces have made a "breakthrough" in the campaign, reported Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev. The defenders...
Even if City does well, the reward for other minorities is unclear. What progress there has been in the industry has tended mostly to benefit blacks, to the frustration of groups like the National Hispanic Media Coalition. "Diversity does not mean blacks alone," says board member Marta Garcia. But one bright spot, for Latinos at least, is Resurrection Boulevard, a drama about four generations of a Latino family of boxers, scheduled to start on Showtime this summer. "This would not have sold to the networks," says creator Dennis Leoni. "Even big shots like Edward James Olmos haven't been able...