Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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What ever happened to the precious parchments? Georgia simply can't find its copy. North Carolina thinks a Yankee yegg grabbed its historic document during the Civil War when General William Tecumseh Sherman tramped through Raleigh. And some New Yorkers speculate that Governor George Clinton walked off with the state's manuscript when he left the statehouse...
...stick failed to save him this time. Doctors, lawyers, civil servants and merchant seamen refused to work. Journalists and television actors walked off their jobs. Shops remained shuttered, and curfew-defying protesters took to the streets. Said opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia: "The autocratic Ershad had to surrender to the people's will...
...classified as Caucasian. City officials report a wave of petitioners claiming long-lost ethnic identities. One 16-year veteran, previously listed as Italian, documented Spanish ancestry to qualify as Hispanic. Some minority fire fighters, meanwhile, are complaining that the bureaucracy has changed their classifications to "white." San Francisco's civil service commission says it will consider publicizing ethnic classifications so employees can challenge colleagues suspected of making shady heritage claims...
...SOLUTION is not, as many civil libertarians would have it, that we should purge all references to religious celebration from public life. Clearly, Jews and other religious minorities would still be conscious of the predominance of Christianity even if every nativity scene disappeared tomorrow...
...Tuesday, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Michael L. Williams said that scholarships granted solely on the basis of race were discriminatory and illegal...