Word: civilizations
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...school professor surrounded by media blitz is played by Ron Silver in a movie. A professor of education and social policy serves as special master in a school desegregation case and testifies in civil rights cases on housing discrimination and testing discrepancies. A Kennedy School of Government (KSG) professor travels to the White House and Camp David to discuss political ideas with the President...
With his father, Sen. Albert Gore Sr., appearing on the news almost nightly--particularly because of his eloquent speeches on civil rights and military involvement in Southeast Asia--Gore's interest in television had risen...
When Gore did talk about his father, says Kapetan, it was usually in reference to the Senator's strong record on civil rights or his anti-war stance...
...laws. Assuming he says yea--a near certainty considering Friday's findings--he can impose a remedy as far-reaching as the total dismemberment of the Gates empire. And more potential bad news: these findings of fact could be used by a host of competitors to bring their own civil antitrust actions against Microsoft. The reverberations will be felt for some time throughout the high-tech world--and by the tens of millions of Americans who have a stake in this battle because they own Microsoft stock. (For what this means to investors, see Dan Kadlec's Personal Time column...
DIED. DAISY BATES, 84, civil rights leader whose memoir, The Long Shadow of Little Rock, won a 1988 American Book Award; in Little Rock, Ark. During rioting in 1957 over the integration of Central High, Bates advised the nine black students. With her husband, she founded the Arkansas State Press--a key voice for the movement. Her crusade, she said, "had a lot to do with removing fear that people have for getting involved...