Word: columbus
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...issue is especially charged in Cambridge, which contains many African-Americans and Afro-Caribbean immigrants as well as Italian-Americans, for whom Columbus has traditionally been a hero...
Next Monday marks the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' landing in the West Indies, and recent debates over the nature of that "discovery" promise to make it the most controversial Columbus Day yet. In ethnically and racially diverse Cambridge, almost everybody seems to have a different take on the Italian sailor and the era of colonization he initiated...
Within the last few years, "decelebration" efforts have reached the mainstream in Cambridge. Nationally, this year's quincentennial has been marked by prominent protests by Blacks and Native Americans who contest the traditional image of Columbus as a heroic discoverer...
...Martin Luther King is a role model, Joe DiMaggio is a role model, Frank Viola is a role model and Christopher Columbus is a role model in the eyes and in the minds of young Italian Americans," Vellucci says. "Nobody should try to change that...
DOES GEORGE BUSH BELIEVE IN ANYTHING SO DEEPLY that he would rather lose the election than abandon that principle? To hear the President before the Knights of Columbus on Aug. 5, his opposition to abortion passes the test: "I promise you again today, no matter the political price -- and they tell me in this year that it's enormous -- I am going . . .to stand on my conscience when it comes to matters of life." Since then, and despite the Republican Party's screaming pro-life affirmation of Bush's public stance, the keepers of the faith have winked and nodded...