Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those appeal, how about a ride in the cockpit of a Concorde flight simulator? British Airways has offered its Executive Club members that experience at auction in exchange for 143,500 miles, says Elizabeth Weisser, director of Executive Club and its various partnerships. Other auction awards have included an African safari, a five-day cooking course with master chefs in Italy and a golf outing in Scotland. "People want experiences that are unique and different," Weisser says...
While the U.S. last week loudly protested a wave of atrocities sweeping the war-torn African nation of Sierra Leone, questions arose about whether enough had been done to support the United Nations arms embargo that was imposed last October and that the U.S. backed. Did the State Department ignore a clandestine delivery by a group of British mercenaries of nearly 40 tons of high-powered weapons to the diamond-rich nation? Both British Foreign Secretary ROBIN COOK and State Department spokesman JAMES RUBIN deny knowledge of the shipment. But a well-informed U.S. official tells TIME that word...
Four rising seniors will travel to Africa this summer to conduct thesis research, courtesy of Harvard's Committee on African Studies...
QUENTIN TARANTINO learned an important lesson last week: Don't drink and talk race. The feisty director got into a discussion with an African-American acquaintance, Barron Claiborne, about whether there are "black features." At one point Tarantino put two fingers in his nostrils to refer to the shape of some black people's noses. Later, after more drinking, Claiborne "comes and stands over me, which is something you don't do to another man," the director told Howard Stern. "He starts it all up again." Tarantino told the guy to get out of his face. "And then our friend...
Games however, does not welcome all of theattention his passion and resilience has drawn. Asa homosexual African American Republican, Gomeshas met tremendous political pressure to furtherhis minority associations. He has resisted. Gomeshas fought to retain his autonomy and independenceand he maintains with unabashed pride that theonly adjective in front of my name is "Christian...