Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fraternity chapter breaks the Animal House stereotype that edu-crats see as the root of most evil at America's colleges. A significant portion of our membership does not drink, and neither do we ever force anyone to engage in any activity that is physically harmful or mentally humiliating...
Recently, Mr. Franken, I've been very disturbed about three very violent acts of hatred we've seen in America. First there was Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old boy who was tied to a fence in Laramie, Wyo. and left to die because he was gay. Then there was James Byrd Jr. of Jasper, Texas, a man who was tied to a pick-up truck and dragged to his death because he was black. And now there is Billy Jack Gaither, a man from Sylacauga, Ala. who was clubbed to death with an ax handle and thrown onto...
When I think that next June I'll be entering a world, an America, in which the level of hatred responsible for these three deaths exists, well, I kind of don't want to graduate. With hope, though, at least our justice system will punish the killers (one of them has been convicted already). But what about the media, Al? No one seems to be taking care...
...Bryant and Milam, a black man pointing out white men as the murderers of a black child. After his testimony, Wright fled Mississippi for his life. Bryant and Milam went on with theirs, acquitted of any crime. But the rest of the country looked at Mississippi justice and shuddered. America had seen a mother's sorrow. Mamie Till Mobley had shipped her son's battered body back to Chicago and allowed his open coffin to be put on display for four days so the world could see what "they...
Look! There's F.D.R. swimming, Truman on a morning walk and Kennedy chatting with coal miners. The classic pictures and colorful Sidey anecdotes help personalize the Presidents and make history seem so human, which has always been one of our goals at TIME. In America, more than in any other nation, we like to think of our leaders not as mysterious monarchs but as regular neighbors. Walk a few blocks to the old Truman home, and there's his fedora hanging on a rack in the hall where he left it after his last stroll...