Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bicycle is my best friend--I ride it everywhere. I tied a red ribbon to the handlebars so that it wouldn't get lost among the rows and rows of black bikes in the streets every day. Last week we rode into Tiananmen Square. You cannot imagine a space this big, and full of people. It must have been an incredible sight last...
...lynching meanness that seeped up in those years in Alabama and Mississippi. But the bruise of the past is deep. The students segregate themselves, black clusters and white clusters, in the school cafeteria. They struggle to describe the abiding significance of race in Prince Edward County. They cannot quite find the word for what they suspect in the hearts of the other race. Not "prejudice." Not "hatred," not "intolerance," exactly. It is, they say, something hidden, and always there...
Schools, of course, cannot be isolated from neighborhoods plagued by drugs, gangs, crime and poverty. Says Miller, the teacher who faced a kindergartner's gun: "Whatever is out on the street seeps into the schools." Violence, however, is no longer confined to tough areas. In an affluent part of Tallahassee last month, one janitor shot another to death in front of about 100 grade schoolers. Last year in posh Winnetka, Ill., a woman opened fire in an elementary classroom, killing an eight-year-old. Other recent school slayings have occurred in middle-class areas of Greenwood, S.C.; Largo, Fla.; Little...
Thomas Stoddard of Lambda counters that "history by itself cannot justify % an unduly limited definition of family, particularly when people suffer as a result." Yet even within the gay-rights movement, there is some disagreement about the goal. Paula Ettelbrick, the legal director of Lambda, argues that the campaign for domestic partnership or gay marriage is misdirected because it tries to adopt traditional heterosexual institutions for gays rather than encouraging tolerance for divergent life-styles. "Marriage, as it exists today, is antithetical to my liberation as a lesbian and as a woman, because it mainstreams my life and voice...
...said elsewhere about America's slothful business habits and loss of competitiveness. But it is Ishirara's chapters that are the most contentious. He asserts that Japan now holds the technological balance of power in the world. The Americans may own the missiles, for example, but they cannot fly straight without Japanese semiconductors. Japan, Ishihara argues, must use its technological leverage to assume its rightful place in the world. No longer must the country walk a respectful, and silent, three steps behind...