Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they deemed dangerous -- only to find the man was a black plainclothes officer, Derwin Pannell. The white officers involved claim Pannell had his gun drawn (he was stopping a fare beater). He says his weapon was holstered and he was startled when his colleagues fired at him from point-blank range. Partially paralyzed, he is suing the city for $70 million...
...answered with a blank stare, you're not alone. Harvard doesn't keep statistics on the number of South Asians, as opposed to the number of East or Southeast Asians, enrolled in the College. South Asians are often simply referred to as "Indians" or lumped together with all other Asians...
...When Stempel was hospitalized with an attack of high blood pressure, board members did not bother to phone him get-well wishes. When rumors flew that Stempel was about to be ousted, the board issued a statement that conspicuously lacked a denial. Finally, Stempel, 59, bowed to a point-blank demand from a third-generation GM board member, who told him it was time to leave the post he had taken scarcely two years...
...reigning academics at Wayward Community College, a two-year women's school in southern New Hampshire. Alf hates Brent Meuller, a literary deconstructionist, whom Alf finds "contentious, dismissive, cocky, and a great hit with the students; he played to them with a televisable glibness and catered to their blank, TV-scoured brains by dismissing on their behalf the full canon of Western masterpieces, every one of them (except Wuthering Heights and the autobiography of Frederick Douglass) a relic of centuries of white male oppression, to be touched as gingerly as radioactive garbage." To undermine Brent's growing authority...
...drawing of a crawling baby accented by Haring's signature black lines. Haring created over 5000 drawings between 1981 and 1986. He was arrested at least 20 times for defacing public property with his "graffiti art"; in actuality, when he painted in subway stations, he only painted on blank billboards...