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JEAN ("I'M NOT A CRETIN") CHRETIEN OCCUPATION: Canadian Prime Minister BEST PUNCH: Nixed Black's bid for a seat in the British House of Lords with a 1919 document asking U.K. monarchs not to confer titles on Canadians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 23, 1999 | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

CONRAD ("IN THE") BLACK OCCUPATION: Canadian media mogul BEST PUNCH: Sued Chretien, whom his papers have sharply criticized for years, for $16,000, citing among other things "abuse of public office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 23, 1999 | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...WINNER: Black, who distracted Chretien from pressing issues like Quebec and the Blue Jays

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 23, 1999 | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...COMMENT] May be an ancestor of A. boisei and A. robustus. The fossil above, found by Richard Leakey's team, is called the Black Skull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All In The Family: | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...courts or at the polls, that have outlawed the use of racial preferences in California, Washington and other states. That's why so much is riding on two lawsuits filed by whites who claim that they were denied admission to Michigan because of their race, pointing out that some black applicants with lower test scores and grade-point averages were admitted. If affirmative action at Michigan can't survive these assaults, it's probably doomed at every other state campus in the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Affirmative Action's Alamo | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

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