Word: johnson
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...race contained in Clinton's second Inaugural Address and this year's State of the Union speech. And, Penn also found, they were "quite open to taking another look at race in America." So he suggested creating a second Kerner Commission, the quasi-independent body appointed by President Johnson to investigate the ghetto riots of the late 1960s. It produced the oft-quoted line about America's being "two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal." But it also called for creating 2 million jobs and building 6 million housing units, not the kind of direction the fiscally conservative...
...enemy of the human species. He is apparently willing to risk destroying our civilization and sending us into another Dark Ages. We need a U.N. that is strong enough to prevent one country from invading another. We have a right to die of old age, not germ warfare. ROB JOHNSON Urbana...
...Wynton Marsalis, the pianist shares with his former bandleader a taste for pedagogy, historicism and sheer ambition. Roberts' two most recent albums were a song cycle about romantic loss and rebirth, and a jazzman's reclamation of Rhapsody in Blue. The new disc begins with basics--covers of Robert Johnson and Jelly Roll Morton--and then branches out with 12 self-penned numbers. The climax, Roberts writes, "symbolizes what the whole record is about...our belief that jazz (blues) will dance into the 21st century." It sounds, well, better than it sounds...
Also fairing well in the meet, senior Kevin Johnson placed in four events. Johnson took second place in the 200 meters and in the 400 meters and also grabbed fourth in the 55-meter dash. Johnson then teamed up with freshmen Richard Powel, Jamil Shamasdin and sophomore Cabral Williams to place second in the 4 x 400 meter relay...
...Johnson also stressed that the need for faculty who can add to the diversity of the curriculum influenced the open nature of this search...