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...girl if she is a kokujo [a woman who likes black men]? Is it O.K. for an American soldier to rape a woman if he is black? The time, the place, the situation, the woman and the race--none of these can be excuses for rape. NAME WITHHELD ON REQUEST Kawasaki City, Japan...
...freshmen at Smith, largely by traveling to high schools in the nation's poorest ZIP codes to recruit. Concerned with the lives of minority students once they arrive at school, she has fought to ease the racial standoffs that plague so many campuses. At Smith she turned down a request by students to have race-specific dorms. In 1993, while vice provost at Princeton, she wrote a now famous report recommending that the university establish an office of conflict resolution to defuse racial misunderstandings before they boiled over...
...does when he travels, and he doesn't put up with hassles. And neither should you. Got a problem with a room? Is a waiter's performance less than acceptable? Terpilowski advises that you ask for the manager and state your case. Just keep in mind that a reasonable request will almost always be honored. "A little human kindness and understanding may get you more than you asked for," he says...
...other congressional barons agreed. "What we don't want to do is give up our constitutional powers and make it a blank check," one participant told me. They ordered their staffs to move quickly on the administration's emergency funding request, but to move carefully on drafting the legislation. Congress didn't have to go overboard and approve the full load now. Remember, Obey told the group: After the Pearl Harbor attack, Congress passed 12 supplemental appropriations bills to fund its recovery. By the end of last week, Congress appropriated $40 billion, kicking in $20 billion extra for New York...
Internet radio is a godsend for listeners whose tastes run too eccentric for the MTV Total Request Live navel-exposure set. Whether you hum merengue music in the shower or brush your teeth in rhythm to German techno, there's an online channel that offers what you want. Finding a station that matches your interests at a site like Sonicnet.com is like finding a date in the personal ads. All you have to do is scan the list of descriptions, and eventually you'll find the one that's approximately right for you. Globetrotter? To start, there's "African Experience...