Word: beards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...name is warped, so is his personality. He is an American, fifth generation, a Berkeley graduate. But he is not an American because of his heritage. Because he is always marked as an Asian, he cannot pass himself off as a Beatnik, despite long hair, a beard and mismatched clothes...
...Myers, chief of DEA's criminal-law section. Others are not so sure. "After 23 years in customs law, you notice that inspectors look for certain things," says Los Angeles attorney Leonard Fertman. "If you're coming from Central America without a camera or luggage and you have a beard, you may spend more time being questioned than another person...
...harsh sight for a freshman's eyes. In the common room buzzed two printers. In the bedroom sat Zach, frantically typing footnotes. He did not look up from under a three-day beard. Gil had been working on the bibliography at another Mac. Potato chip bags lay open on the bed; random chocolate chip cookies spotted the wood floors...
...Maulvi Younus Khalis, 70, the only political leader who also regularly serves as a military field commander, leads an independent faction of the Islamic Party. A former village mullah dismissed as something of a bumpkin by his rivals, Khalis sports a henna-dyed beard and in 1987 took a 16-year-old bride. He vehemently opposes elections; in his view, the only constitution needed for post-Soviet Afghanistan is the Koran...
America, however, had the American Revolution. And ever since that less-than-earth-shattering rebellion--shot heard round the world, or no shot heard round the world--left-wing historians in America have spent their time trying to create a legacy worth fighting for. Charles Beard attempted to play up the American revolution as a popular struggle in his Economic Interpretation of the Constitution--which purported to find a self-interested wealthy class responsible for fashioning the Constitution, thus betraying the spirit...