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Karenna Gore Schiff Some people live the lives they've been given, and some--in the words of Southern belle turned civil-rights activist Virginia Durr--"step outside the magic circle" of the world they were born into and make it better. It's the latter group that interests Schiff (who is Al Gore's daughter). She vividly profiles nine women, some well known, like labor firebrand Mother Jones, some less so, like Alice Hamilton, one of the first doctors to fight for industrial safety, who asked, "Is it sensible to assume that what is American is necessarily wisest...
...Martin Luther King Jr. who, after his murder on the balcony of a Memphis, Tenn., motel in April 1968, hid her grief, shielded her four children from the media and immediately took up his campaign for racial equality--eventually becoming one of the most revered figures of the modern civil rights movement; of cancer, at a hospital in Rosarito Beach, Mexico. In the days after King's death, she appeared at protests to echo his message and calm enraged supporters. Later she led a 15-year push that succeeded in 1983 in establishing a federal holiday in his honor, founded...
Hello. I am, apparently, a racist. It’s also been said that I support slavery and wish that no progress had ever been made toward equality in civil rights. Why have I been labeled in this unfortunate manner? The simple answer is that I support Spencer’s Gift stores’ right to produce what some Asians have termed offensive and “racist”: a t-shirt that proclaims one should “Hang out” with one’s “Wang out” and depicts...
...every turn in history; as Abba Ebban, former Israeli Foreign Minister, liked to describe Palestinians: “they never miss a chance to miss a chance.”I too am unhappy by the choice my people made; my fear is mostly centered on domestic issues: civil liberties and individual rights and the maintenance of the secular nature of Palestinian society. But, at the same time, I find that I have no right to blame Palestinians for the cards they were dealt. The choice was between incompetence and corruption of Fatah on the one hand, or Hamas which...
...wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the Patriot Act was originally set to expire Dec. 31 of last year, and Congress prepared to revise and renew the legislation in early December. But a bipartisan group of senators has continued to block long-term reauthorization until their civil liberties concerns have been addressed. Rather than allow the act to lapse entirely, Congress has opted to temporarily extend the current law first until February, and now until March. “The need for extensions provides something for both sides to find encouraging,” Harvard?...