Word: ringing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Participants in the demonstration walked out of classes at 12:30 p.m. and formed a ring around the pond near the center of campus where two of the assaults occurred...
...year ago, 35 people, including a tribal chief, were indicted for their part in an international ring that smuggled Chinese into the U.S. The Justice Department says it brought in more than $160 million--100 to 150 aliens a month at $47,000 each, with the Mohawks getting a cut. But St. Regis is still the route of choice for perhaps 20,000 illegals each year from the Middle East, Europe and Asia...
Atlanta's progressive image was severely tested in the early '80s by the murder of dozens of black children. White police suspected parents; African Americans saw the hand of the Ku Klux Klan; others believed that a child pornography ring was responsible. The killings abated after the arrest and conviction of Wayne Williams, a black photojournalist. But suspicions and suppositions continued. Bambara's posthumous docu-novel conveys the period's fear and conflict with a powerful blend of fact, fiction and indignation...
...Hampshire the people who come out to see McCain know their issues and aren't looking for a showman. They find a candidate who doesn't appear artful--he stalks around like a boxer waiting for the bell, twists his wedding ring on his finger, talks a blue streak and then says, "Whoa," as if snapping out of a trance. But he can be artful. Describing his opposition to the G.O.P.'s proposed across-the-board spending cut, he says, "It takes courage to eliminate pork-barrel spending," invoking his war-hero past without mentioning it. He sorts through...
...clothes, "hard" music, dyed hair and body piercing [SPECIAL REPORT, Oct. 25]. When will people realize that subscribing to such stereotypes will only exacerbate the problems already present in our high schools? I have dyed my hair many times since I began my freshman year. I have a nose ring, and I enjoy wearing black clothes. I also have a 3.88 G.P.A. We should be focusing our diagnostic attentions on the problematic sources that lurk at levels far below the superficiality of clothing and hair color. SARAH GORDON Bellevue, Wash...