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...avoid this chilling scenario, I went home to Washington, D.C. for the summer. I vowed to infiltrate the upper echelons of the federal government and then use its vast resources to root out Minnesota fans...
...Mahin Root's father is white; her mother is black. So when the 14-year-old girl tried to register this year as a junior at Page High School in Greensboro, N.C., she faced a problem: a form that asked her to specify her race. Instead of filling in the blank, she left the question unanswered. School officials politely suggested that she make a choice, since the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights requires all public school systems to submit racial data on their students. Mahin, who had attended private schools since moving to Greensboro...
...before the so-called gentrifiers move in. They do not buy from the nice ethnic family and kick them out. So much housing has been destroyed. Look at the Bronx. There has been more housing destroyed there than has been built in all of New York. There is the root of the problem -- lack of housing...
...Drive- Inn. A South Dakota guidebook last year said Europeans recommend the place ) to their friends, especially for the Indian tacos, but Green, whose daughter is married to a Sioux, professes puzzlement at the transatlantic accolade. She is also mysterious about her secret fry-bread recipe, which includes the root vegetable tinpsila. But on only two days in the past ten years has no one come to call at the WoodenKnife. "Some local people have a prejudice against Indian food," she notes dryly, standing against the spectacular Badlands moonscape that she describes as "my million-dollar view." She adds...
...total employees: 123,000) routinely clamps down on its low-level miscreants, it is prone to ignore wrongdoing by members of its old- boy network. At the same time, IRS managers appear to be so concerned with the agency's public image that they would rather suppress whistleblowers than root out unethical and illegal activity. Last week's hearings explored the results of a year-long probe by the subcommittee, which found evidence of misconduct and cover-ups involving more than 25 top IRS officials in ten cities. Among the allegations...