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Dates: during 1990-1999
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INTERVIEW Nicholas ("The Crow") Caramandi on life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine contents page | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

Several students found some of his comments on slavery and recent Black history objectionable. They said he had painted a benevolent picture of slavery and had said that Jim Crow laws benefitted Blacks...

Author: By Lan N. Nguyen, | Title: The Faculty Feuds Over The Politics of Scholarship | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...finished my taxes today, which isn't much to crow about when you consider that they were my 1989 taxes. (Hope to finish 1990 next week. Big job. Been busy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles Dear IRS . . . | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

During a recent class, for example, Bunker had the students do the 'crow walk.' "Make some sounds that remind you of a crow," she suggested to her class. And the students got down on the balls of their feet, squawking and creeping around the red wrestling mats like scavenging birds...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: The Stressed-Out Learn to Relax Through Yoga | 3/2/1991 | See Source »

...this context as referring to "connections between this war and how colored people are treated..." I do not use the phrase "colored people" to refer to persons of color and did not do so when speaking with Mr. Balagur. That phrase, with its unfortunate heritage in the Jim Crow tradition, is generally considered offensive and I very much regret that an apparent transcription error caused Mr. Balagur to attribute it to me. Ellen J. Messing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: I Was Misquoted | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

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