Word: civilizations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...quick to "play the race card" and "come from a place of self-pity"; he's stubbornly determined to show that, if he gives off a positive vibe, he won't encounter racism. Carmen is the well-meaning daughter of parents who were active in the civil rights movement, but she has had little personal contact with blacks. She refers to one of her daughter's black friends as a "magnificent black creature," and, in a role-play led by the dialogue coach, addresses Renee, "Yo, bitch." ("Bitch," she tells TIME, was on a list of slang terms the coach...
...Leave it to Clooney, winner of the night?s first award, to address the question whether Hollywood was out of touch. He said that movie industry had addressed questions of civil rights and AIDS when the rest of America was afraid of them. ?I?m proud to be part of this Academy,? he said as the applause cresecendoed, ?proud to be part of the community, and proud to be out of touch.? He exited to cheers. If there were four strong men nearby, he would have been carried on their shoulders...
...conservative icon as America has, recently wrote that "one can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed." George F. Will has been a moderate skeptic throughout. Neoconservative scholar Francis Fukuyama has just produced a book renouncing his previous support. The specter of Iraq teetering closer to civil war and disintegration has forced a reckoning...
What we do know is that for all our mistakes, free elections have been held in a largely Arab Muslim country. We know that the Kurds in the north enjoy freedoms and a nascent civil society that is a huge improvement on the past. We know that the culture of the marsh Arabs in the south is beginning to revive. We know that we have given Iraqis a chance to decide their own destiny through politics rather than murder and that civil war is still avoidable. We know that the enemies of democracy in Iraq will not stop there...
...Bones RevealedIt was clearly worth the wait. The scientific team that examined the skeleton was led by forensic anthropologist Douglas Owsley of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. He has worked with thousands of historic and prehistoric skeletons, including those of Jamestown colonists, Plains Indians and Civil War soldiers. He helped identify remains from the Branch Davidian compound in Texas, the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon and mass graves in Croatia...