Word: calling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thorndike Street resident reports that at 9 p.m. her husband became hostile. When she tried to call the police, he disconnected her phones. He then tried to hit her with the phone. Then he allegedly hit her with his hand and grabbed her by her neck. Cambridge's Most Wanted...
Racism has always been a hot topic in certain circles, but, especially with President Clinton's recent call for a national dialogue on race, race rhetoric seems to be taking on unprecedented proportions. In particular, we hear more frequently how pervasive and over-whelming racism is today and how much progress has yet to be made. I imagine these are claims that confuse and make uncomfortable many white Americans (in as much as they are implicated as the guilty party). Confuse because there seems to be such a vast disparity between where blacks are today and where they once were...
...your wealth, education or success in the context of your socially-constructed blackness, substantial progress has yet to be made against racism and white supremacy. As Malcolm X put it, "You just can't stab a man in the back nine inches, pull the knife out three inches, and call that progress...
...call on Harvard to follow Princeton, Yale and Stanford and make a first class education more affordable...
...Following moderate Iranian president Mohammad Khatami?s call last year for increased contact between the nations, journalists were eager to cast the wrestlers? visit as a sweatier equivalent of the ?ping-pong diplomacy? between the U.S. and China in the early '70s. The team certainly appears to have been well prepared for its diplomatic mission: Said one member, Melvin Douglas of Arizona, ?I know not to walk on carpets with your shoes, I know not to look at the women. Basically, I won't do nothing wrong...