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CIVIL RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT
"Survey Finds Friction among Minority Groups"
The Washington Post

Relations among African Americans, Hispanics and Asian Americans are fraught with tension and negative stereotypes, but the three groups share core values and a desire to get along better, according to a poll released yesterday by the nonprofit group New America Media. The survey found that many members of the three groups feel more comfortable doing business with whites than with members of the other groups and that an overwhelming majority of each group views racial tension as a "very important problem."
http://www.civilrights.org/press_room/buzz_clips/survey-finds-friction-among.html

EDUCATION
"A Lesson in Diversity"
Los Angeles Times

Before she arrived at middle school, Itanza Lawrence admits, she cleaved to certain racial stereotypes. Asians were quiet and smart. African Americans, her group, were "ghetto" and "not academically competitive." She doesn't see it that way anymore. One of the first things she learned at the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, one of the city's first magnet schools and, by some standards, its most successful, was that Asian Americans could be loud and rowdy. And they weren't all brainiacs. African Americans? A lot of them turned out to be like her: driven to succeed academically and determined to go to a good college.
http://www.civilrights.org/press_room/a-lesson-in-diversity.html

HUMAN RIGHTS
"Senator Says Wal-Mart Sells Products from Sweatshops"
The New York Times

A Democratic senator said Wednesday that Christmas tree ornaments sold at Wal-Mart Stores and other major retailers were made in a Chinese sweatshop employing workers as young as 12 and others who work more than 100 hours a week. "There is virtually no enforcement anywhere on these issues," Senator Byron L. Dorgan of North Dakota said at a news conference concerning the release of a study on Chinese sweatshops that provide cheap goods for the American market. "Our country needs to insist that our trading partners enforce their own labor laws and respect international labor standards."