Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have emigrated to Israel. Another is that the colony is divided by an internecine feud between "white Jews," who are descendants of traders, and "black Jews," who the "whites" say are the descendants of converted slaves. The white Jews, whose ancestors came from Europe and Baghdad, tend to be fair-skinned, while the black Jews are darker-complexioned. White families will not allow their daughters to marry into black families. Today, few Cochin Jews believe their community can last more than several decades. "This is our last blaze of light before we vanish," said one male leader of the colony...
Though the alleged confession is fancifully made the dramatic crux of The Great White Hope, there has never been any evidence to substantiate it. Indeed, a film of the match discovered just two years ago proves Willard's oft-repeated claim that he "beat him fair and square." Excerpts of the film, in a recently released feature on early fighters called The Legendary Champions, shows Willard dispatching the wilting, 37-year-old Johnson with a crunching overhand right that would have knocked out any heavyweight who ever lived...
...Oske hardly qualifies as a remnant of the Nazi judiciary that survived the war. His legal education came after the war, and he has established a reputation as a competent, calm and fair judge. Overwhelmed by the reaction to his decision, he suffered a nervous breakdown a few days later. Meanwhile, as 7,000 left-wing students demonstrated against the verdict on Berlin's Kurfürstendamm, Chief Federal Prosecutor Ludwig Martin let it be known that he would handle the appeal against the acquittal...
...tests confirmed the blues player's notion that time seems to be stretched under the influence of pot. Some subjects who had previously been able to gauge a five-minute interval with fair accuracy guessed that the same interval was ten minutes after they had had their smokes. One subject said: "I realize why they took our watches. There was a sense of the past disappearing, as happens when you're driving too long without sleeping. It was the same tonight with eating a sandwich. I'd look down and discover that I'd just taken a bite...
...student committee represents a fair cross-section of all History graduate students, the spokesman said. "We've tried to reach virtually every student in the department. In one way or another, we have succeeded," he added...