Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kicking off the 1998 Native American Film Festival, 40 students and community members gathered yesterday at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) to watch the documentary Surviving Columbus and to engage in a dialogue on the current status of Native Americans...
...administration officials expect the students to sit around like good little children, speaking only when spoken to, asking polite questions? I'm happy those who attended the meeting in Columbus showed that students won't sit by quietly when given the opportunity to voice opinions. Government officials wanted an open forum. They got it. LORI ELLMANN, student University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee...
Taking turns vacuuming their cars, the men give directions to the Harriet Tubman House, on Columbus Street, and also recommend a stop at a local watering hole--a jazz bar called Wally's Bar. The firemen apologize for being so boring, and the large door closes, sealing them back inside their noisy station...
...demanded that this time the U.S. do the job properly and get rid of Saddam Hussein. The prospect of war managed to anger the political left and right simultaneously. And the replies they got from the nation's top foreign-policy officials were limp, cant-filled and suspiciously incomplete. Columbus mirrored the very same problem President Bill Clinton faces in trying to persuade most of America's allies, the Arab world and marginally friendly countries like Russia and China. He hasn't done any better with them than his advisers did in the heartland...
...famous Town Meeting that CNN broadcast from Columbus, Ohio, last Wednesday, when an unhappy trio of Administration foreign-policy advisers squirmed while cranks and crackpots fumed and bellowed, was by any measure a disaster--catastrophic as diplomacy, unlucky as public relations and worthless as a means of preparing the country for war. That's too bad, of course, but look on the bright side: the Ohio calamity may do away with "national town meetings" once...