Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Algerian President Houari Boumedienne, secrecy was a lifelong obsession. Born Mohammed Ben Brahim Boukharouba, he borrowed a nom de guerre from an Algerian village during the revolution against France and kept it ever since. If his movements were mysterious, so was the way in Boumedienne which he ran his country for 13 years. Last week the mystery continued as Boumedienne, 53, with a blood clot on the brain, lay near death in an Algiers hospital...
...lifelong resident of the City of Boston, I was offended by the recent article in What Is To Be Done, "Southie Solipsisms." The article stereotyped South Bostonians as a bunch of racist, ignorant derelicts and perpetuated the misconceptions concerning a strong, vibrant community. My letter is not an attempt to whitewash the racial violence that has occurred in South Boston but instead to criticize anyone who seeks to rubber-stamp communities or people as belonging to a certain mold...
...silent places and the Red Line extension fracus has certainly increased the decible level. Danehy has been leading the fight against the MBTA since it started and he maintains that the MBTA is out to force this project on the Cambridge community, any way it can. Cambridge is his lifelong home and Danehy pictures himself as the knight in shining armor, come to save the innocent maiden. Like others, the mayor can perceive the long-term advantages that extension offers but he hesitates to sanction the "destruction of Mass. Ave. for five years or more...
...comedown for a man who once debated Hegelian theories of revolution with Erik Erikson at Yale and who was nominated for Congress in 1968 as a candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party. Newton's defenders argue that these are only the latest clashes in a nearly lifelong battle between Huey Newton and the Oakland police. Even as a teenager, the seventh child of a Baptist minister from Louisiana, Newton acquired a record of arrests for fighting with white policemen. Newton does not deny that he has a hot temper and has often said, "I'm against violence...
...there is any one outstanding characteristic of Mr. Nixon's public career, it is his lifelong inability to perceive the true nature of power in politics and differentiate its use from its abuse. It behooves all Americans to remember this as they contemplate his resurgence...