Word: tellingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...passage for black and Hispanic youngsters. Just as parents warn their sons to wear a condom during sex or urge their kids to say no to drugs, now they drill them on the dos and don'ts of dealing with police. It's just a matter of time, many tell their kids, before you are stopped, for no other reason than that you are young and black. "They know it's part of their job bringing up a black or Hispanic kid," says David Harris, a professor of law and values at the University of Toledo who is researching racial...
Word of Veteran's precious inventory has quickly spread south via the Internet and local ads. "Americans love their cars and their bathrooms," says Awerbuck, "and they don't want anybody to tell them what to do with either of them...
...business to salsa and cinema, is worrisome because it amounts to America's only real example of codified censorship. Miami arts enthusiasts, fearing reprisals, have balked at challenging the ban. But the American Civil Liberties Union and Debbie Ohanian, the concert promoter who brought Los Van Van to Miami, tell TIME that they plan to file a federal suit this week. "My family is from Armenia, which was under Soviet communism for 70 years, and yet we still allowed the Bolshoi Ballet to perform here," says Ohanian, 43. "As an American, this law offends...
...high school guidance counselor, says parents should appreciate the maturing process brought on by the skinny envelope. "We're trying to put kids in charge of their lives here, and we shouldn't undermine it with our own expectations. Besides," he notes, "college is too blunt an instrument to tell you who you are for the rest of your life...
...negotiations between federal officials and Microsoft turned Monday into a rough day for MSFT. The stock has been swinging wildly over the past few weeks, rising on rumors of a settlement, diving when talks appeared stalled. And now those talks are dead. What went wrong? It's hard to tell. Some accounts say that Microsoft balked at the DOJ's demand that it unbundle Internet Explorer from Windows, while other sources insist that Gates & Co. were perfectly willing to do so. And quite a few fingers (especially ones based in Redmond) are pointing at the attorneys general...