Word: brotherhoods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with uncharacteristic emotion. She cited the observations of Bush campaign manager Lee Atwater as he lay dying from a brain tumor at age 40: "My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me -- a little heart, a lot of brotherhood . . . And to see that we must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul." She posed the questions of her own vigil: "When does life start? When does life end? Who makes those decisions, and how do we dare impinge...
...almost all the grocery stores in the area are owned by Korean Americans, a situation that has become increasingly politically charged. "This is black people doing something for ourselves," says Mom & Pop manager Myra Allen of the alcohol- free shop, which was funded with $500,000 from Los Angeles' Brotherhood Crusade Black United Fund Inc. "We always talk about what we are going to do and never do it. This time we're doing...
...forefront of the new movement are two leading proponents of urban bootstrap economics: Danny J. Bakewell, a wealthy real estate developer and president of the Brotherhood Crusade; and the Rev. Charles R. Stith, president and founder of the seven-year-old Organization for a New Equality (ONE) in Boston. Both men are pushing versions of the same idea: that economics is the key building block of political power. As Stith points out, in the U.S. the median white family's net worth is about $43,000, in contrast to $4,100 for the median black household. "The inescapable conclusion...
...pressure, he must contend with three major problems. First, he will have to sell his plan to Britain, France and Canada, all of which oppose military intervention because they have troops on the ground who could be endangered, and to Russia, which has rediscovered its nationalistic ties of brotherhood with the Orthodox, Slavic Serbs. Second, all the peacekeepers convoying humanitarian aid in the former Yugoslavia will have to be withdrawn, beefed up or safe-guarded against retaliation. And third, he must define the goal he intends to achieve...
...Joshua Tree (1987) and Achtung Baby (1991), Robbie Robertson's eponymous solo album (1987) and Bob Dylan's Oh Mercy! (1989). Lanois produced, or co-produced, all of those. But, on current evidence, he did significantly more than run levels and read meters. Those albums share an occasional brotherhood of sound -- hard, lovely, otherworldly -- but more significant, they are each rounded with a dream, part funky and part fantastic, that makes them seep into the subconscious, then permeate the waking state. They are, in the title phrase from one of the splendid Dylan songs that Lanois produced, a Series...