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Given the multitude of very good reasons to dislike Buchanan, this should not have been the case. We all know that Buchanan is, shall we say, right of center. He is opposed to gay rights, has rather backward opinions regarding the place of women, and he seems to harbor a bit of a xenophobic streak. There is also ample evidence in his remarks about the Holocaust and Israel to suggest that he isn't exactly a friend of the Jews...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Pat Buchanan Comes to Town | 3/17/2000 | See Source »

...Visiting Jamaica, the man who would be King became the toast of Kingston as he toured the blighted neighborhood of Trench Town and met with Bob Marley's widow Rita. The prince was anointed with a crown of dreadlocks fastened to a Rastafarian cap, which he donned briefly, and backward, before doffing it because of the heat. Rita Marley said had her husband been there, he would have "burn[ed] a spliff--a big, big spliff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 13, 2000 | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...things from a distance, the only close-up testimony comes from the cops. Officer Carroll's account would be pivotal to the court case. "The way he was peering up and down the block," said Carroll from the witness stand, had made the police suspicious of Diallo. "He stepped backward, back into the vestibule as we were approaching, like he didn't want to be seen...And I'm trying to figure out what's going on. You know--what's this guy up to?...I was getting a little leery, from the training, of my past experience of arrests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Black and Blue | 3/6/2000 | See Source »

...difficulty of actually calculating what's owed, and to whom and by whom," he said. "The second is that I think there is an advantage to forward-looking rather than backward-looking...

Author: By Sasha A. Haines-stiles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Scholars Join Debate About Slavery Reparations | 3/1/2000 | See Source »

...awesome challenge to go forward by dreams and hope and not backward by fear and memory," he said. "We must choose to go forward by our dreams...

Author: By Katherine M. Marino, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Jackson Speaks for Economic Empowerment | 2/22/2000 | See Source »

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