Word: caste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's supporting cast did enough to keep the Crimson in the game and set up the exciting final 15 minutes of play...
...clear picture of Mitchell Johnson has been obscured by his disparate identities--choirboy, volatile romantic, school bully. To those images must now be added the ravages of family turmoil and rootlessness. But was Mitch the instigator of the shootings at Westside Middle School, as Drew's grandfather has cast him? Gretchen Woodard has another version. She told TIME her son says it was Drew who proposed an attack last month. Mitch had said no, Woodard says, but then on the bus ride home from school the afternoon before the fatal assault, Drew approached Mitch again. "Mitch told me he never...
...times Allison's lyricism derails ("her hips rocked loosely on the pistons of her thighs"), and her supporting cast of friends and kin hangs on too long. But the central story of mother and daughter runs true, both on and beneath the surface...
...crowd of Chinese businessmen and government leaders during a half-hour talk on everything from Beijing bureaucracy to environmental protection and China's commitment not to devalue its currency. He tackled silly as well as serious subjects. Economic and political wizards are a dime a dozen, but few can cast serious problems in so humorous a light--and move the audience not only to laugh but also to do something. I hope the 69-year-old straight-shooting, side-splitting Premier is around for a long time to come. WILLIAM N. BROWN Xiamen, China...
After the August 1991 coup, Gorbachev was deprived of power, cast out, laughed at and reproached with all the misfortunes, tragedies and lesser and greater catastrophes that took place during his rule. Society always reacts more painfully to individual deaths than it does to mass annihilation. The crackdowns in Georgia and Lithuania--the Gorbachev regime's clumsy attempts to preclude the country's collapse--led to the death of several dozen people. Their names are known, their photographs were published in the press, and one feels terribly sorry for them and their families. Yeltsin's carnage in Chechnya, the bloody...