Word: reals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps the only realistic outcome at this time is a transitional one, to what one deeply involved Western diplomat calls a "zebra-striped government." Says he: "Power sharing with a real share for the blacks is definitely on offer in the next phase. A surrender of white power is not." But, he adds, once that first hurdle is surmounted, South Africa will be poised for the final jump. "The next constitution," says this diplomat, "will not be the ultimate constitution...
...real tragedy of this obsessive preoccupation with Eurocentrism is that it is a trap and a diversion. Of all the reasons for the difficulties encountered by the minority kids in and out of school, curricular Eurocentrism ranks, if at all, at the bottom. That New York State, in the midst of an education crisis, should be devoting its attention to cleansing the grade school curriculum of Eurocentrism is a waste, a willful turning away from real problems...
...pursuit of good feeling in education is a dead end. The way to true self-esteem is through real achievement and real learning. Politically Balkanized curricula will only ensure that our schools continue to do bad, for which feeling good, no matter how relentlessly taught, is no antidote...
...Barbara Benedek and director Paul Brickman, gets promising when Lange lurches toward psychotic withdrawal from this grave new world, even as her kids accommodate themselves to it quickly. But a TV-movie moral awaits at the end, as comforting and predictable as a public-service commercial. For the real goods on women without men, and on the hold the dead have over the living, skip Men Don't Leave and catch up with its thrilling, high-fantasy counterpart, Always, still playing at a theater near...
...supension of most new investment from abroad has reduced the country's economic growth rate by about 30%, to the current 2.2%. But such statistics by themselves do not add up to success. There was never any doubt that punitive measures could damage the South African economy. The real question was whether hurting the economy could force the government to change its fundamental apartheid policies...