Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years of his career, from his arrival in Washington as the upset winner of a 1952 race for the Senate to his climactic run for the presidency in 1964, he was notorious for casting lonely and unpopular votes--against the 1963 Test Ban Treaty, for example, and against the Civil Rights Act a year later. For his offenses against progressive opinion, he was variously described as "dangerous," "psychotic," "Hitlerite," "fascistic" and a "rallying point for racists" whose election would lead to a "police state." Even now, in a political era supposedly debased by attack ads, the vilification of Goldwater...
...They were "surveilling" us, the FBI. Bowers' Klan organization was known as the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi. He formed the White Knights because the more widely known klan, the United Klans of America, led by Robert Shelton, was not "aggressive" enough in resisting the civil rights movement. The White Knights looked on the United Klans as "sissies." I hope some of Pol Pot's DNA has been saved. A comparison with the DNA of Bowers would show that they are related. EDWARD C. SMITH JR. Folsom...
...disillusioned by increasing governmental encroachment onto the judiciary and left the country with his wife and four children for self-imposed exile in 1978. El-Gaili was two years old at the time. With the encouragement of his father, el-Gaili mostly learned about events in his homeland--its civil wars, famines, floods and increasing implementation of fundamentalist Islamic law--from newspapers he started to read when he was eight, at his home in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, on the other side of the Red Sea. The painful reality of Sudan, he says, became a powerful driving force...
...thus reject the contention that today's generation simply does not care. But that does not mean everything is hunky-dory. Far from it. Blacks and whites are still treated far from equally. In many places, the civil rights of gays and lesbians are in question. A women's right to choose is threatened daily. Guns are still available far too readily. And though the economy is strong, Bill Gates and his ilk are reaping more than their fair share as thousands continue to toil from dawn to dusk, day after day, merely to make ends meet...
Schlanger is currently a trial lawyer in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice...