On a hot day many years ago my the-middle school daughter Emily, one of the most optimistic people I know, was paddling with me in a cardboard boat race.

数年前一个炎热的日子里，我那上中学的女儿艾米丽——我所认识的最乐观的人之一，和我一起参加划纸板船比赛。

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Two months ago, Cambridge held a public forum on race and class at City Hall. It will hold another dialogue on the topic in October with Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

两个月前，坎布里奇市在市政大厅举办了一场关于种族和等级的公共论坛，十月还将和哈佛大学的肯尼迪学院再次就此话题研讨。

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I worked summers at BBC Radio and conducted man-on-the-street interviews during the race riots in the Brixton area of London, building on what I had learned in school.

凭着在学校中所学，夏季我为英国广播公司(BBC)工作，在伦敦Brixton区的种族骚乱中作街头随机采访。

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The Race to the Top competition will look for states and local school systems with effective reforms in four areas.

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Campaign volunteers also went to work under the radar in several local campaigns last year -- including the Charlotte mayor's race and school board races in populous Wake County -- to elect friendly Democrats and identify new voters.

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The role of race in college and graduate school admissions remains controversial in the U.S. In fact, the Supreme Court is currently taking up a challenge to a University of Texas program that considers race in its admission decisions.

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Last November, a federal appeals court barred the prestigious Boston Latin School from using race as a deciding factor in the allocation of places to pupils.

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