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 You know, that's racist within itself. I mean, what you're saying is that if you're minority, you can't have a good school if you've got minorities, so you view minorities as a liability that you balance around. That is the underlying racist point when you start with that premise and say we have to balance minority numbers and diversity numbers, your premise that you start out with is that minority students are an inferior student and that's where the racist comment and thought pattern comes from. |
Tony Blair (1953-) |  |
| What our reporting has done is set off an intense national debate about the proper balance between security and liberty. |
| [D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) said M.R. Beal initially got District business because it was minority-owned but has since performed as well as any of its bigger Wall Street competitors.] They are part of our minority contractors program, ... But they have also done a very good job for us in terms of getting us excellent rates on our bonds. |
| So anyone who is reporting that he did that poorly is wrong, point blank, because I called and asked. I was told it's not true. So it's unprofessional and really, really poor for someone to be reporting a number that they don't know is factual that I know is not factual when a young guy has so much riding on it in the future. |
| The mother said, 'They call your son a hero, and my son is a hero,' ... I said, 'I know, but I just can't see it that way.' She said, 'I looked it up in the dictionary and a hero is an ordinary person doing an extraordinary job.' So I guess that's true. |
| We're now at a critical point in this debate, ... and the balance could really go either way. |
| I think it would be fitting if we could lift Suffredin and his posh Evanston home and drop it smack in the middle of New Orleans' flood-ravaged lower Ninth Ward, ... I can just see Larry now, sitting on his veranda, trying to fend off looters and 'gators with green tea and granola bars. Yes, it's a silly visualization, but it illustrates just how out of touch Larry Suffredin is with the world lying beyond his cobblestone street. |
| But how reliable was the reporting, media execs asked. Who were their sources? How about if one of the citizen reporters had it in for one of the Republicans? I didn't add my two cents on that point at the meeting. Here it is now: As a reader, I'm happy to look at that citizens' reporting. It's additive. There was nothing. Now there's something. True, the anonymous reporters are not accountable for their work. So I wouldn't cite it, journalistically, as evidence that a certain Republican voted one way or another. |
| In any open society, there is going to be a continuum between freedom and security, and I think any debate about how to strike that balance is a good debate, ... I do believe the Patriot Act strikes a good balance, but I'm also a Libertarian at heart. I want to hear good arguments on both sides. |
| You are going into the unknown. You never know who is under the bed and who is around the corner, ... And due to the fact that we are having looting in the area ... and the looters have been using weapons against the police down here, we need to do this. |
| As it stands, the UA is in the distinct minority, Pex Tufvesson is a genius, without a doubt. As it stands, the UA is in the distinct minority, |
| For a young man, he was focused on what was coming around the corner vs. getting caught up in what was happening at that point in time. |
| It's a battle zone. There's shooting, dead bodies in the street. We're looters like everyone else. |
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Denna sidan visar ordspråk som liknar "It's a legitimate point to debate. But it's part of the reality. It's happening, but it's also true they (looters) are in the distinct minority. I think there's a hero on every street corner in New Orleans, and I think the reporting has shown that. I think the balance has been there.".