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...stellar play brought the American League championship back to the Big Apple. He hit a patch of ice in the World Series, however, eeking out only one hit in 22 at bats. This prompted the first of Steinbrenner's many diatribes against his star, in which he coined the epithet Mr. May, a contrast with the high priest of pressure and Yankee immortal, Reggie Jackson, a.k.a. Mr. October...
Reid, who is Black, charged that on one occasion Manager of Operations for Security Robert J. Dowling did not discipline a guard who used a racial epithet...
...when the Secretary-General suggested, in an interview published in the New York Times, that racism might be a factor behind a torrent of criticism from the British press. "Maybe," surmised ) Boutros-Ghali, it was "because I'm a wog." Western diplomats were shocked at the insinuation and the epithet; but many Third World envoys quietly nodded their assent, reflecting the deep North-South rift within...
...nations are not individuals, and the moral epithet "selfishness" shouldn't be applied to both in the same way, as it too often is when America's role in foreign crises is discussed. Both the trouble in eastern Europe and our response to it provide examples of the wrong approach to the idea of "taking care of your own kind first...
another passage reads, "Significantly, themedia forms through which some conspire to traduceBlacks with racial epithets are not controlled bythe ostensibly racist white groups." The articleblames "Euro-American individuals and specialinterest groups with powerful influence in themedia" for common use of the epithet...