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...collection to date. More than 16,000 men in a rural town were sampled after a girl, 11, was raped and strangled. In a quest to restore the town's innocence, entire soccer teams took the test together. The killer, pressured to participate by friends, also complied, sealing his fate...
...Indeed, Abbas's campaign-trail comments on the on the fate of Palestinian gunmen and on the rights of Palestinian refugees sparked considerable alarm in U.S. media outlets that had tended to paint him as the antithesis of Arafat. That may have been the sound of an illusion beginning to collapse...
...fate of Mfume's social initiatives proved less successful and were emblematic of an identity crisis within the group. "We have all this money to spend, but I don't feel like the N.A.A.C.P. is effective as a civil rights organization," says Michael Meyers, a former assistant director of the organization and now executive director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition. While Mfume made headlines for grading Hollywood on minority representation and denouncing ebonics ("black English"), detractors say he did little to draw attention to the health, education and criminal-justice issues that still cripple many in the black...
...part of me that wants assurance that I will not meet a similar fate rationalizes that the times are different. My friends and I are spending our twenties with each other as family. Though some of us have boyfriends and girlfriends, we spend a significant amount of our youth away from home learning to depend on each other. Maybe today’s generations of young people educated away from home and growing up in relative affluence will prime us for maintaining, or at least returning to, these bonds that we are forming now. Among others, one thing that...
This spring the Faculty will debate the merits of a January term (J-Term) and the Governing Board will be the final arbiter of its fate. Due to a strong desire to align the University’s multiple calendars, the end of January finals seems all but inevitable. Still, for the past year, the question of whether to institute a J-Term has been handled separately from the larger calendar changes. There is much wisdom in this approach because, although students may never agree on whether January finals are preferable, students can unite in their opposition to the misguided...