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...welfare reform -- he's actually closer to black public opinion than they are. "Blacks can't forget that like it or not, they are part of this country too," observes Derrick Bell, the black activist and legal scholar. "At some point, we have to hope for the best with regard to racial issues but recognize that we sink or swim with this society...
...school choice proponents should not see the recently released report as a major setback. Rather, they should regard such conclusions as a call for improvement and restructuring of what is still a relatively new educational experiment. Condemning the program when it is still in its embryonic stages would not be wise...
First, in regard to the Garden Street residents, the proposed plan seems to be a reasonable compromise that would not significantly affect the housing lottery. The plan would guarantee that a blocking group of more than 75 percent of 29G residents would get one their four choices...
...upmanship, the French look upon the benefits that attend citizens from cradle to grave as inalienable rights. Why has France -- and many other West European countries -- long since reached a consensus about government's obligation to family while Americans continue to argue across party lines? While both cultures regard the family as a precious and fragile unit that requires governmental attention and care, historical and ideological factors make the terms of that obligation very different. French workers pay 44% of each paycheck to their government to ensure the wide range of family-related services that touch all generations. The relative...
...reverence Americans have for self-reliance. They cling to a new-frontier notion of rugged individualism, forgetting that those who actually braved the alien territories of the Wild West traveled in groups of families, not alone. Through the agrarian era into the modern one, Americans have continued to regard the nurturing of families as a personal issue rather than a public concern. "We have this notion," says research psychologist Arlene Skolnick of the University of California, Berkeley, "that a family is inadequate if it is not self-sufficient...