Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evidence may be lacking, but the allegations certainly aren?t. At issue: Whether Herman received an envelope stuffed with cash from African businessman Laurent Yene, plus a $250,000 illegal campaign contribution from Yene?s friend Vanessa Weaver, in return for Herman?s help in acquiring a federal license for a satellite phone system. Herman says Yene is simply out for revenge over a soured business deal. And she?s certainly got the support of her boss: The President, explained a wry Mike McCurry, ?knows what it?s like to be nibbled by an independent counsel...
...what if? What if there had been a place within Harvard where I wouldn't just be part of another 9 percent. A House, maybe, that had a disproportionate number of African-American students. Would I have elected to put in a preference for that House and, horror of horrors, attempt to self-segregate...
...three show-biz types have bought a bank. MAGIC JOHNSON, JANET JACKSON and former head of Motown Records Jheryl Busby have spent about $3 million on a controlling share in the California-based Founders National Bank. They hope to use their contacts and drawing power to get the African-American elite to plunk their savings there. They also hope to be able to attract more African-American businesses to apply for loans. Johnson, whose other investments include movie houses, shopping centers, even a few Starbucks, told the Wall Street Journal, "This is not a charity case. Hopefully we can knock...
...anyone to assume that diversity can not exist whenever a group of minority students assemble publicly. The "Black table" at any one time may consist of students from wealthy, suburban communities sitting next to those from impoverished inner city neighborhoods. The "Black table" may also be comprised of Africans, Caribbeans and African Americans who have just as much to learn from each other as a group of Chinese Americans, Korean Americans and Japanese Americans at the "Asian table," or a collection of Caucasian students from New York, Utah and California sitting together at the "white table." It is also important...
According to Rice, the U.S. has designed a training program to help African nations react quickly to internal conflicts, as well as set up an international coalition against genocide...