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...500th anniversary may also force a new awareness in school curriculums of the immense role played by Spaniards in early colonial America. Up to now they have been all but shunted out of view behind the screen of Anglo founder- images (the Pilgrim Fathers, Raleigh in Virginia). This can do good, not because it may pump up the "self-esteem" of Hispanic schoolchildren (the purpose of history is not to make people feel better), but because it accords with a large truth shrouded, at present, in omissions and lies. Columbus himself has been presented as Castilian, Catalan, Corsican, Majorcan, Portuguese...
...RALEIGH, N.C.--Months after the U.S. victory in the Persian Gulf, some Marines are still fighting a war--against the war. About 40 Marines, mostly reservists, face court-martial for refusing to go to battle...
...editors have the same dilemma," said Frank Daniels III, executive editor of The News and Observer in Raleigh, N.C., which withheld the woman's name. "By naming the defendant, you've now said someone is an alleged rapist without naming who's saying that...
...rate is so high (25%) that city officials journeyed to the Orient in January to try to woo prospective tenants. Bucking the trend are a few lucky cities, most of them sleepy state capitals that hotshot dealmakers bypassed in the '80s. Among them: Lansing, Mich. (10%), Albany (9.6%), Raleigh, N.C. (9.4%) and Sacramento...
Still, there is strong belief that Gates will come to Harvard. It is a move that most scholars, outside of Raleigh, N.C., say would be the best, not only for Gates and Harvard, but for the whole field of Afro-American studies...