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...reviving fortunes of the nation's 117 historically black colleges. Twenty years ago, many of the best-prepared black students turned their backs on such institutions, preferring to get their education at elite Ivy League universities. Now the tide is turning, in part because of a surge of racist incidents at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Purdue and other prestigious colleges...
...quite. Critics say the policy is racist and unfair, encouraging the most motivated parents and students to take their talents and tax dollars out of inner-city schools, which are predominantly African American and Hispanic. The hemorrhage leaves these schools with the neediest students and fewer resources with which to help them...
Letting parents choose where their children will go to school sounds simple, but the policy excites divergent passions. Bush backs it. Critics say it is racist and unfair...
...most successful on Oranges and Lemons when it does what it does best: performing hard-hitting rhythms accompanied by Partridge's elastic vocals and social statements. "Poor Skeleton Steps Out" is an excellent example of XTC's characteristically choppy beat, ehhanced by xylophone effects in this anti-sexist, anti-racist song about the confines of human flesh. This theme is continued in "Across This Antheap," a song which criticizes humanity's tribalism with lyrics like "Still segregating 'cause we insects are too proud" and "The stars are laughing at us as we crawl on and on across this antheap." Partridge...
Clara is not a racist, as she twice insists. She is engaged in a struggle that transcends boundaries of color and class: trying to live truly and honorably in a compromised world. She triumphs in the end, and so does her remarkable creator...