Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson's divers weren't about to be left out of the action, either...
When Tomb Raider IV hit stores last week, you were also able to pick up a Lara Croft comic, a Lara Croft candy bar, a Lara Croft action doll. A Pokemon-esque Lara Croft card game is selling briskly, as is Lara's Book (a cultural dissection by Generation X author Douglas Coupland). Coming soon: a Lara Croft movie from Universal Pictures and 60-ft.-tall Croft wall paintings in major cities across America...
Even if you totally disagree with Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell's vow to "fight to the death" against a right-wing assault on his city's affirmative-action program, you have to acknowledge his candor. "This is as important to us as our right to vote was back in the '60s," he declares. "African Americans have to be as resolute on this issue as the Jewish community is about aid to Israel." Any "handkerchief-head Negro" who disagrees, he adds, ought to be "shunned...
...quarrel about the mayor's pugnacious strategy for battling the Southeastern Legal Foundation. That conservative group filed a federal lawsuit in August alleging that the city discriminates against white males by requiring prime city contractors to set up joint ventures with minority- or female-owned businesses. Tucker supports affirmative action, but she complains that Campbell has abused the program by showering lucrative contracts on his wealthy black supporters. She argues that courts have become so hostile to affirmative action that spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend Atlanta's program is futile. Instead, says Tucker, Atlanta should replace...
...Campbell-Tucker feud would be no more than a clash of egos if so much were not at stake. Campbell believes preserving affirmative action is vital to the continued prosperity of the black middle class. Tucker thinks blacks need to prepare for the day when such programs are outlawed by conservative courts or ballot initiatives such as California's Prop. 209. This is a serious difference of opinion that deserves a dignified debate by serious people, not a wallow in the mud. Surely, the mayor of a major American city and one of the country's most formidable journalists...