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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In 2007, the court barred school districts from adopting policies that consider race in order to promote classroom diversity, finding that the practice violated white students' rights to equal protection of the laws.

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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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