Word: civil
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Last week their suspicions gained supporting evidence. A 43-page report released by the American Civil Liberties Union showed the problem to be of national scope. Citing police statistics, case studies from 23 states and media reports, the organization asserts that law-enforcement agencies have systematically targeted minority travelers for search--pedestrians, motorists and airline passengers--based on the belief that they are more likely than whites to commit crimes. Says David Harris, the University of Toledo law professor who wrote the A.C.L.U. study: "It affects blacks and Hispanics from every station in life and every geographic location...
...civil-liberties group wants federal legislation requiring all law-enforcement agencies to track racial data from traffic stops. Only a few police departments, including those in San Jose, Calif., and San Diego, now do so. The organization is also pushing for an end to so-called "pretext stops" as a crime-fighting tool and a ban on racial profiling in all federally funded drug-interdiction programs...
...jazz singer Diane Schuur made poignant connections between her own blindness and that of Helen Keller. Rita Dove, America's former poet laureate, produced a tightly woven mini-epic in prose of the moment of Rosa Parks' apotheosis from unprepossessing Montgomery, Ala., matron to unshakable icon of the civil rights movement. Collaborating with staff writer Romesh Ratnesar, Fang explained the symbiotic nature of physics and political dissent that he and Sakharov practiced. Says Ratnesar: "He did so in a methodical, disciplined way, as if he were explaining the proof of a theorem." Ratnesar says Fang, who teaches at the University...
...first Prime Minister --Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister --Mohandas Gandhi, father of modern India --Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet reformer --Adolf Hitler, German dictator --Ho Chi Minh, first President of North Vietnam --Pope John Paul II, religious leader --Ayatullah R. Khomeini, leader of Iran's revolution --Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader --Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union --Nelson Mandela, South African President --Mao Zedong, leader of communist China --Ronald Reagan, U.S. President --Eleanor Roosevelt, U.S. First Lady --Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. President and New Deal architect --Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. President and environmentalist --Margaret Sanger, birth-control crusader --Margaret...
...failure to accept human difference leads to the current disaster in Kosovo. The failure to accept human difference leads to civil war in Rwanda. The failure to accept human difference leads to Matthew Shepard's death in Laramie, Wyo.; James Byrd Jr.'s murder in Jasper, Texas; and Amadou Diallo's gunning down in New York City...