Word: civilities
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...Barack Obama’s election as a harbinger of the end of racism in America. Since we have elected a black man president, the argument goes, discrimination in this country is a shadow of the serious problem it once was. And certainly, it is true that since the Civil Rights Movement, our society has made tremendous strides towards tolerance, reconciliation, and the attenuation of racial stereotypes...
...partly by appealing to African Americans' fundamentally conservative social sensibilities - the numbers have once again becoming overwhelmingly Democratic, extending a trend that began in the 1960s. This year, 95% of blacks cast their vote for Obama. (See pictures of how Obama's election energized the heart of the civil rights movement...
Faust’s book, entitled “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War,” was published at the beginning of this year to positive reviews and strong sales for a work of academic history...
...November 20 story Faust's Civil War Bok Falters in Quest for Non-Fiction National Book Award" misspelled the name of the winner of the National Book Award for non-fiction. Her name is Annette Gordon-Reed, not Gordon-Reid. Gordon-Reed is also a member of the Class...
...underage drinking—they are both signs of the widespread dissatisfaction with the current state of alcohol laws in the country.AWARE makes many arguments about Wisconsin that are entirely justified. The state’s current drunk-driving laws are unconscionably lax: A first conviction is considered a civil rather than criminal penalty. Wisconsin is the only state in which this is so. A felony charge is not issued until the fifth conviction of drunk driving. The results are evident: In 2007, 41.4 percent of motor-vehicle fatalities in the state were related to alcohol, the third-highest...