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...road back from Black/Jewish discord to Black/Jewish concord and alliance demands this kind of humanistic boldness. It requires this kind of simple decency from broad segments of today's African-American student population...

Author: By Martin L. Kilson jr., | Title: Reviving a Humanistic Legacy | 2/11/1994 | See Source »

...speaking with one voice on adopting anti-crime measures. The Omnibus Crime Bill which is making its way through Congress calls for stiffer prison sentences and the building of more prisons, measures which the Heymann Report describes as counterproductive. Heymann may have been a victim of this discord between the White House and the Justice Department...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Justice at Justice? | 2/8/1994 | See Source »

This attitude rings a striking discord with Bill Clinton's campaign rhetoric on job creation, when he claimed that increasing employment would be one of his administration's foremost priorities...

Author: By George Wang, | Title: Reckless Clintonomics | 11/23/1993 | See Source »

...with demands to start getting out almost as soon as they got in. The alleged U.S. dithering at one point caused the Secretary-General to exclaim, "All my experience tells me not to trust the U.S. You are unpredictable and change your minds too often!" Whoever is right, the discord was an unhappy omen of future trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Somalia: Anatomy of a Disaster | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

...township. The student had devoted herself to helping the cause of South African Blacks, and had been escorting a few of her fellow Black students home when she was approached and savagely killed by several youths. Her murderers belonged to one of the leftist groups committed to promoting discord for their own agenda. Ironically, they accused her of being a white racist as they killed...

Author: By Mohammed Asmal, | Title: A Violent Homecoming | 9/28/1993 | See Source »

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