Word: douglass
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...convenient theories, and the problems among us are more complex than something we can throw jobs, social programs or more policemen at." That maddening complexity, these two powerful books make clear, keeps it nearly as difficult for young blacks to free themselves from bondage today as it was in Douglass's time...
...Since the middle 1980s, intellectually infantile clusters of African-American students at Princeton University, Rutgers University, the University of Massachusetts--Amherst, etc., have with such invitations thumbed their noses at the humanistic civil rights tradition--a tradition honed by the best of African-American leadership, like Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Benjamin Mays, Horace Mann Bond, James Weldon Johnson, A. Phillip Randolph, Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson, to name just...
...culinary special doubling as a charity event for the Greater Boston Food Bank, students were treated to a full service meal, including wine, spotlighting the specialties of two visiting chefs. Kevin Cromwell of The Pillar House in Newton Falls was featured at Dunster House, and Chris Douglass from Icarus in Boston's South End cooked at Quincy. Both chefs participated in a similar program last year...
...mysterious wasting disease. If the ghost of Christmas present dresses like Santa and quotes Diet Pepsi commercials, that doesn't keep him from making the eternal case for charity. If the ghost of Christmas past summons up not only old Fezziwig but also Tarzan and Little Orphan Annie, Frederick Douglass and the Washington Redskins, the hokum need not impinge on the message of choosing people over pelf, emotion over ambition...
ECONOMICS Honored for using modern statistical techniques to study the past, Douglass North, 72, of Washington University in St. Louis, and Robert Fogel, 67, of the University of Chicago, are the first economic historians to win the Nobel. North's research showed that contrary to popular belief, free-market forces alone won't generate growth. Strong political and legal institutions, including courts and patent laws, are needed as well. Fogel contested the orthodox view that slavery was unprofitable in the U.S. and thus destined to fail. He found that it was economically efficient and collapsed only because of the Civil...