Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poverty may be over, its soldiers in disarray and retreat, but the Rev. Floyd Flake, who is a departing member of Congress, seems not to have got the news. Flake's Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church in Queens, N.Y., with 9,000 members and a towering new $23 million cathedral, operates a government-funded social-services network that would be the envy of many municipal governments. The church's 30,000-sq.-ft. social-services center houses a city-funded walk-in clinic and federal Head Start classrooms at street level. On the center's second floor are a city...
PHILATELIC FELINE The Central African Republic, it seems, has a soft spot for Socks. But you don't have to go there to lick the back of the First Cat's stamp. The International Collectors Society, a privately owned stamp company, sells a block of nine for $12.95. The company, based in Maryland, is appointed by post offices around the world to help market and distribute special-interest or collector stamps, which are legal for postage in the country where they are produced and recognized by postal authorities worldwide. i.c.s. buys the stamps from the government, usually paying above face...
...flexible, post-ideological approach to politics. Cities that once thrived on straight-ticket Democratic machine politics, where labor unions and social-welfare programs were considered untouchable, are led today by some of the nation's most nonpartisan and politically unpredictable politicians. On school vouchers Cleveland's White, an African-American Democrat, is sparring with his city's traditionally Democratic teachers' union and the N.A.A.C.P. Goldsmith alienated his party's establishment by firing patronage appointees who stood in the way of his efforts to privatize. Says New York's Giuliani, a Republican who broke with his party by lobbying to save...
...Masters by an incredible 12 strokes just four months after his 21st birthday. But it has become the Year of the Young Lions. For the first time in history, the first three majors have been won by players under age 30, with Woods getting the green jacket, South African Ernie Els, 27, collecting his second U.S. Open trophy and Texan Justin Leonard, 25, taking home the claret jug of the British Open. All in all, twenty-somethings have fired enough 60-somethings to win 15 of the 30 events on the tour this year. Five of the Top 9 money...
...teenager he was busted for boosting a copy of The Switch from a bookstore--Tarantino chose to film Rum Punch first. But he not only retitled the story, he also moved its location from Florida to California and changed the main character from a Caucasian to an African American. Phoning Leonard earlier this year, Tarantino confessed that he had been hesitant to call because of the alterations. But Leonard, who praises the young auteur's understanding of criminals and casually realistic dialogue, says he told him, "You're the filmmaker--use what you want and make your movie...