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Articles in Spring, 1999 issue of Public Interest

• A reply - response to article by Leighton Ku, in this issue, p. 108
  by Douglas J. Besharov
• A Dream Deferred, the Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America. - book review
  by Alvin Kernan
• Losing Our Language: How Multicultural Classroom Instruction Is Undermining Our Children's Ability to Read, Write, and Reason. - book review
  by Kay S. Hymowitz
• Still the land of opportunity?
  by Isabel V. Sawhill
• Privatizing Social Security. - book review
  by Timothy Taylor
• Thinking about parent and child
  by James Q. Wilson
• The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning. - book review
  by Charles Murray
• How to save our shrinking cities
  by Witold Rybczynski
• "The Shape of the River": the case for racial preferences - book by William G. Bowen and Derek Bok on consideration of race in college admissions
  by Nathan Glazer
• California after racial preferences - college admissions based on race
  by Martin Trow
• Doing it right: job training and education
  by James J. Heckman
• Debating WIC - response to Douglas J. Besharov et al, The Public Interest, no. 134, Winter 1999 - Women, Infants and Children nutrition program
  by Leighton Ku