Word: brawls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...argument over a dollar's worth of fruit. Two weeks ago, Newsday's Pulitzer-prizewinning columnist Jimmy Breslin was suspended for aiming a tirade of racial and sexual slurs at an Asian-American co-worker who had criticized his work. At Long Island University's Brooklyn campus, a brawl broke out when a white professor from the City College of New York delivered a lecture proclaiming white genetic superiority. Another C.C.N.Y professor, this one African American, joined the chorus with a theory that blacks, the "sun people," are warmer and better than cold and selfish whites, the "ice people...