Word: enoch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatullah Khomeini began to appear in street demonstrations. Though there have always been attacks against Indonesia's small but powerful Chinese community, the new attacks are taking on a dangerous religious character. "It's the most dangerous thing--the abuse of religion for political ends," says Enoch Markum, president of the Indonesian Psychologists Association. "Once people have moved into this irrational territory, it's difficult to bring them back to rationality...
...DIED. ENOCH POWELL, 85, Conservative former member of England's Parliament and classics professor who made his name and killed his career with his infamous 1968 racist "rivers of blood" speech opposing nonwhite immigration; in London. The explosive speech put race on the map of British politics, but it also led to Powell's fall from his party's inner sanctum to its back benches. He never forsook his views, asking in 1995, "What's wrong with racism...
...monarchy faces no immediate danger. Despite the misadventures of her children and in-laws, Queen Elizabeth is widely revered by her subjects. Few, no matter how republican in sympathies, are talking seriously about tossing Her Majesty out after 40 dedicated years on the throne. Enoch Powell, a former Conservative Party Cabinet minister and an authority on constitutional matters, argues that passing blips like the Fergie photographs cannot hurt the enduring power of the crown because Britain "is not governed by something called the royal family. It is governed by the single person of the sovereign...
...chemical transmitters. This gene was one of several suspects that researchers speculated might be an underlying cause of alcoholism. The scientists were amazed to find that the gene was present in 77% of the alcoholics and in only 28% of the nonalcoholics. The association was "surprisingly strong," said Dr. Enoch Gordis, head of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Exactly how the dopamine D2 receptor gene might predispose someone to alcoholism is not understood, but dopamine has been linked to craving and pleasure-seeking behavior...
...Mencken's diary--just released this year after decades of languishing, unread, in Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Library--is not really about politics. Or about the writer's craft. Or even about the inner life of the writer himself...