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Word: civilizations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
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Baby boomers from the antiwar neighborhoods are especially susceptible to this ruthless amorality. Convinced long since of their unassailable idealism and virtue - Didn't they end the war in Vietnam? Didn't they win the battles for civil rights and women's rights? - they are ignorant of their own capacity for evil. The thought would not occur to them. It is an impossibility. They, evil? Ironically, theirs is much the same dangerous innocence for which the prophetic novelist Graham Greene ("The Quiet American") arraigned Americans in Indochina in the mid-1950s, well before they had entered into their fiasco there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Injection of Lawyers Will Harm the Nation | 11/10/2000 | See Source »

Fennessy started his casting work in 1994 at Collinger/Pickman Casting with big-name projects such as The Spanish Prisoner and A Civil Action, as well as Good Will Hunting...

Author: By Keith J. Lo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Film Casting Agent Offers Secrets to Boston Actors | 11/9/2000 | See Source »

...gayest voting booth in America, the choices were limited. Very limited. The three choices for Justices of the state Supreme Court, two for judges of the civil court and one for assemblyman appeared in both the Democrat and Republican columns. When I tested out the Bush lever, it was so stiff it actually creaked. It also smelled lovely in there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Day Comes to Chelsea | 11/9/2000 | See Source »

...will fight for the working families of the middle class," Kennedy said. "I want to return to the Senate because we have a lot to do to protect the environment, defend civil rights...[and] raise the minimum wage...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Kennedy Victorious, Dems Gain Seats in Senate | 11/8/2000 | See Source »

...supreme court precedent by denying incarcerated state residents their voting privileges. This decision has symbolic ramifications more than anything else; prisoners have never voted in especially strong numbers in Massachusetts and have never had any significant impact on election results, but they have now been stripped of a fundamental civil liberty...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Presidency Too Close to Call | 11/8/2000 | See Source »

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