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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Poitier's screen characters were as noble as any blond hero -- nobler, because they withstood and deflected so much unjustified abuse. But the role of soulful sufferer was a dead end for blacks on both sides of the movie screen. Intransigent white America could not be persuaded to lift blacks to equality. Could the system then be scared into action? The Watts and Newark riots of the mid-'60s may have been mainly fratricidal, and the your-money-or- your-wife taunts of the Black Panthers may have been mainly street theater, but they lent an image of the black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boyz Of New Black City | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

Each year, as the beginning of June approaches, Harvard Yard gets a face lift. This year, as the University prepares to host Commencement exercises on June 6, is no exception...

Author: By Paveljit S. Bindra, | Title: As Every Year, Harvard Yard Gets Commencement Face Lift | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

...year-old woman was on business in Tampa last year for the Florida supreme court. Stranded at the courthouse, she accepted a lift from a lawyer involved in her project. As they chatted on the ride home, she recalls, "he was saying all the right things, so I started to trust him." She agreed to have dinner, and afterward, at her hotel door, he convinced her to let him come in to talk. "I went through the whole thing about being old-fashioned," she says. "I was a virgin until I was 21. So I told him talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Is It RAPE? | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

Naturally, I was overjoyed by all the attention given me by these fancy institutions. When my friends and teachers heard of my acceptance, they showered me with praise. At parties, strangers would lift their eyebrows in admiration, or so I fancied. Normally overlooked, I had become the one who had gotten into Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Required Reading | 5/24/1991 | See Source »

...militant Shi'ites to power. "During the war, we were praying for the allied pilots," confesses a young Christian woman browsing at a stall selling women's clothing. The majority of her fellow believers, the woman asserts, want to leave Iraq for good if Saddam keeps his promise to lift the ban on foreign travel this week. Many Iraqis, however, believe the government will require those who venture abroad to leave behind their money and relatives, making emigration almost impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Back to Yesterday | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

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