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...resistance to civil rights was low-key but consistent. He supported a constitutional amendment in 1979 to prohibit school busing, but it failed. In 1981 Lott persuaded President Reagan to support tax exemptions for racially segregated private schools, a shift in federal policy. Lott also filed his brief with the Supreme Court, defending the tax-exempt status of Bob Jones University, arguing that "racial discrimination does not always violate public policy." The court sided against Lott and the school. In 1982 Lott voted against extension of the Voting Rights Act, but it passed into law. In 1983, he voted against...
...superintendent to bring this to our attention in a way that we might solve this in a year, there’s a big shift from the past,” he says...
...Zhang, born two years after the communist victory, grew up in the social ghetto reserved for children of traitors. During the Cultural Revolution he was forced to leave high school, barred from applying to college, and given a job fit for the lowliest of political undesirables: as a night-shift janitor at a cotton mill in central Shaanxi province. When college entrance exams were reintroduced in 1977, Zhang was too old to be eligible. His only hope lay in the camera he purchased with the proceeds gained from selling his own blood...
...manufacturers will survive the shift to flat-screen technology. The TV business is being revolutionized, and that's "a great thing for our industry," says Bruce Berkoff, an executive vice-president at LG.Philips lcd. But profit margins are getting thinner in the push to lower prices. Ultimately, "very few players will benefit," Berkoff says. For consumers lusting after the electronics industry's hottest product, though, the picture can only get bigger and brighter...
...qualifying exam, he became a member of the academy's first post-Cultural Revolution class of photography students. "I thought maybe if I could get good enough at photography, my factory would transfer me to its propaganda unit," he says, "and I'd get off that night shift. That's all I cared about...