Word: civilizations
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...chair of the California Civil RightsInitiative, Connerly is widely credited forplacing the 1996 referendum on the ballot. By anarrow majority, California voters accepted StateProposition 209, which banned the use of immutablecharacteristics like race, gender or nationalorigin in state actions and programs...
...first public appearance at Harvard since her acceptance of a tenured professorship at Harvard Law School, Lani Guinier '71 talked about how to reconnect to the civil rights movement and create a new vision of social justice in a speech yesterday afternoon at the ARCO Forum...
Guinier, who is the first black woman tenured in the law school's history, gave a short speech peppered with excerpts from her new book Lift Every Voice, which chronicles her failed bid for the position of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights...
Guinier said she had decided to work in the South on the advice of former Harvard Law School Professor Derrick Bell, who had urged her remain connected to the people that gave the civil rights movement its strength...
...possibility of a Palestinian civil war appears to be growing, following today?s announcement by Arafat?s Palestinian Authority (PA) that Hamas leader Mohiyedine Sharif was killed by members of his own organization. ?The PA has not yet proved that this allegation is based on fact rather than on wishful thinking,? says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. ?Very few people buy the idea that Sharif was killed as a result of a dispute within Hamas, because the differences in Hamas are not strong enough to lead to fighting or assassinations...