BLACK YOUTHS GET THE MESSAGE: `WORK HARDER’
I have five words of caution to pass on to the black and white teenagers who, according to a startling new poll, have not found racism to be much of...
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WHAT KIDS AND THEIR PARENTS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT GAY RIGHTS
While riding a bus to school one morning, a child of one of my neighbors heard another child call yet another child a "faggot." My neighbor viewed that with alarm....
SOLDIERS VS. CIVILIANS: A WIDENING GAP
The old wartime slogan, "Loose lips sink ships," might well be rewritten for Sara E. Lister, the Army's newly departed senior personnel official, to something like "Loose lips sink careers."...
WHAT DOES GUILTY LOOK LIKE?
I began to hear it shortly after the first verdict in the famed British au pair murder case. Several folks interviewed at random on the street by television reporters here...
A TIMELY MESSAGE FROM HOUSTON ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
No matter how they try to spin it, opponents of affirmative action suffered a setback when Houston's voters rejected a measure to end it, not mend it, in city jobs...
HELLO LATINOS, GOODBYE ALEUTS IN NEW CENSUS
The Clinton administration's new rules for racial and ethnic classification make about the tidiest compromise the government could make of a most untidy situation. In a classic Clintonian compromise, the...
WHY WORKING MOMS SHOULD GO ON STRIKE
As if she had not suffered enough, a second heinous crime has been committed against Deborah Eappen, the mother of the 8-month-old baby that British au pair Louise Woodward has...
VOUCHERS AND OTHER SCHOOL AIDS ARE FOR THE LUCKY FEW
Sometime smart people can say things that sound like they think the rest of us are pretty stupid. Take, for example, the current proposals that promise to help public school...
MORE JAILS? LESS SCHOOLING? WAY TO GO!
Uh, oh. Those intellectual know-it-alls are at it again. This time they're trying to say that schooling is better than jail. They're trying to persuade the rest of us that...
IMPORTANT RAY OF HOPE IN REFORMING WELFARE
When Rosetta Dunbar showed up for yet another program that would help her get off welfare she didn't have much faith that it was going to work, she said. "I...