Word: alie
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...debating" is "the most hurtful thing I've found at this school," Ali says. "I don't see any interaction between the various communities...
...woman that put up the Confederate flag...I didn't see a debate with her, I just saw a big protest People were marching here and there and never had a discussion. I think that was stupid," Ali says...
...Ali sees two possible directions for dealing with the lack of debate. The first is institutional action along the lines of a debate on affirmative action. "I think there is a need for dialogue...for informational forums," he says...
...second alternative, which Ali thinks is seriously flawed, is downplaying the racial, cultural and ethnic differences that do exist. "I don't think the way of solving or dealing with diversity is saying we are all the same," he says...
After Somalia's longtime dictator, Mohammed Siad Barre, was overthrown by a coalition of clan-based armies last January, he was replaced as President by Ali Mahdi Mohammed of the Hawiye clan in central Somalia. In September the new President's authority was challenged by General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, a fellow clansman and chairman of the ruling United Somali Congress. The President, meanwhile, has been trying to have Aidid ousted from his position as party leader. An estimated 500 people were killed in street fighting two months ago. Weapons flooded the city, and most urban males began carrying rifles. After...