Word: chasms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to argue for the purity of Farrakhan's character. He is a homophobic, anti-Semitic, misogynist man who has often used his position of power and influence to disseminate his bigoted views and deepen the racial chasm in America. Although I am sure this assertion can be debated, I am not particularly interested in doing so in this article. What I am concerned with is the relevance of Farrakhan's personal integrity to the way in which we view the Million-Man March...
Colin Powell finally gave his views on the Simpson verdict in London, where he is promoting his book, in an interview with the BBC. The verdict, he said, "is not a metaphor for all race relations in the U.S. There is an enormous chasm. And sometimes we forget, when we see some progress and some blacks doing well . . . what we have left behind in our inner cities." Powell admit that racial tensions could present problems for him if he runs for president. "There are some people who see me as an American who happens to be black. But there...
Many Latin American countries are now attempting, admittedly on a small scale, to bridge the chasm of class-stratification. Through increased democratization and economic liberalization, they're trying in effect to become more like what the United States claims to be--an open, democratic, economically successful society...
...vote on the most explosive question of Christian faith: Did Jesus literally rise from the dead? That such a vote would even take place says a lot about current Bible scholarship; that the result, by an overwhelming majority, was to announce, No, he did not, shows clearly the chasm that has opened between some professors of Scripture and the true-believing flock...
Pidot explains the recent turmoil that has shaken his publication by talking about "hills and valleys" in organizational history. Whit, this isn't a valley. The chasm is wide and deep, and we wonder whether the Salient will ever emerge from...