Word: civilations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...increasing pressure of immigrants from all corners of the world has raised issues of ethnicity and civil tolerance," she said...
...like another Mobutu: paranoid and willing to use ethnic violence to maintain his rule. The idea terrified the Rwandans, who encouraged a faction of the Congolese army to oust Kabila. In response, Kabila recruited thousands of Rwandan Hutu fighters. By last September, the country was in an all-out civil war. Says a U.S. official: "The threat of more genocide is what is behind this...
...Museveni's generosity hasn't stopped him from exporting more Congolese gold last year than any other nation in the region--trade he swears was legitimate. Congo's civil war has destroyed what was once a promising personal alliance between Kabila and Museveni, men who seemed to embody a new kind of progressive African leadership. "Museveni is a nigger like Mobutu," Kabila says of his onetime ally. "He's an exploiter." Says Museveni: "Kabila was always weak, but I didn't know he would also be so treacherous...
...anachronistic. Since the civil rights movement, education and economic success have increasingly trumped light skin and the right pedigree as black status symbols. Graham shows how easily ambitious outsiders can now join the black upper class. He boasts that he belongs to the Boule, a group of "the most accomplished, affluent and influential black men" in the nation. If the Boule were really all that exclusive, a social climber like him would never have...
...Paul boy from the East Side, the rough side, who got scholarshipped to Harvard, came back to Minnesota to practice law and landed on the Supreme Court at 61, an age when a man thinks about cutting back. He was a conservative who defended civil liberties and championed the poor and oppressed and authored Roe v. Wade, which made abortion legal, for which he received reams of hate mail, much of which he read. He was a man possessed of integrity and kindness. Every day after lunch, JUSTICE HARRY BLACKMUN took a walk to clear his head. He went...