Word: america
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Complaints about law enforcement aren't confined to sensational police shootings. Day in and day out, minority communities around the country feel unfairly burdened by America's tough new policing strategies. In an illegal tactic called racial profiling, blacks and Latinos charge, New Jersey police pull over a disproportionate number of minority drivers, then look for a crime or violation to charge them with. A study found that the troopers are five times as likely to target blacks as they are whites. Governor Christine Todd Whitman fired the state-police superintendent this month for defending his officers by saying minorities...
...photographer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, brought home a mail-order wife from Russia in November 1997. Six months later, as he was leaving for Russia to do a story on the industry, his unhappy bride bolted. "She cleaned me out," says Williams. "She used me to get to America to meet a younger, richer...
...mother a clinging neurasthenic who couldn't bear the crude culture of her birthplace). The Sargents were not rich, but they moved from one roost to another--Rome, Paris, Nice, Munich, Venice, the Austrian Tyrol--for the first 18 years of their son's life. All he retained of America was his passport and some traces of accent; yet he held onto both until his death. Sargent's relation to America was neither resentful nor yearning, as it is with so many expatriates. He was a cosmopolitan, with the perfect adaptability of that type. His homeland was his talent...
Blur's last album, the eponymous Blur (1997), featured raw, guitar-driven rock and seemed to be influenced by the then dominant alternative-rock scene in America. On 13, Blur's sixth album, the band has enlisted producer William Orbit, the electro-guru behind Madonna's most recent album, Ray of Light. The result is that 13 is full of buzzing and whirring, guitar distortion and machine-generated beats. Unlike on Madonna's album, however, few of the songs here have danceable rhythms, and few have memorable tunes. Other British acts, including Radiohead and Unkle, have explored similar sonic territory...
...Nissan Calls For A Tow" [BUSINESS, March 1], your readers were given a blurred snapshot of our company. Some of the positive steps we've taken were overlooked. Over the past year, we have restructured the way we do business in North America, and we are making substantial progress. We agree with your assessment that Nissan's new Xterra suv is "hot," but it is hardly "alone." By March 2000, Nissan will have redesigned virtually all its vehicles, including the flagship Maxima. We have a solid lineup of cars and trucks, a strong group of dealers and a parent company...