Word: jacked
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...slavery. Yet, all of these actions also have occurred underneath the American flag. Slavery was practiced underneath the American flag decades before the Confederate flag came into existence, and the Africans who perished during the "middle passage" did so on ships flying the Stars and Stripes or Union Jack, never the St. Andrew's Cross of the Confederacy...
...students read Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man, and the recent anthology Secret Agents, which explores the Rosenberg trial...
...party voting against him. They rank the men who could come to the rescue if the whole nominating process melts down and no one has a majority of delegates going into the party's August convention. Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson even shared his with TIME: Colin Powell, Jack Kemp, Bill Bennett, some mainstream Senator, a nice modern Governor and, at the very bottom, Newt Gingrich. When Dole began winning again last week, he won himself a reprieve. The Governors, for the time being at least, stopped thinking about where to bury him and began scheming about how to save...
...behind-the-scenes negotiations. A key meeting, TIME has learned, occurred two weeks ago at Al Gore's vice-presidential residence. The private dinner was attended by top executives from the Big Three networks--ABC's Robert Iger, NBC's Robert Wright and CBS's Peter Lund--along with Jack Valenti, the head of the Motion Picture Association of America, which administers the ratings for movies. The session was intended to get industry negotiations back on track after Murdoch had pre-empted the other networks by announcing that Fox would develop a ratings system on its own. Colleagues denounced Murdoch...
...dossier B&W compiled about Wigand to help discredit his testimony, the whistle blower comes across as a chronic troublemaker, quick to complain if his consumer goods were lost or damaged. He also left a previous job under something of a cloud. Several weeks ago, Jack Paller, CEO of Biosonics, Inc., a New Jersey medical-device company, told TIME that in 1987 he had demanded the resignation of Wigand, who was chief operating officer, because he was abusive to the staff. Wigand's attorney contends his client was concerned that Paller was misrepresenting the efficacy of a product...