Word: localness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...imbroglio, Cardinal Szoka threatens to shut down another 25 parishes by next year unless offerings and memberships increase. Though many white worshipers too are hurt by the retrenchment, the archdiocese's 65,000 black Catholics especially feel that the church is abandoning them. Marian Gabriel, co-chair of a local black Catholic organization, considers Szoka's decision "blatantly racist." Says she: "This is the most disgusting thing I've ever run up against...
...that's right. Harvard, renowned as the treasure chest of academic research, is actually the capital of spectator sports. Start with 40 varsity squads, throw in a few local professional teams and plenty of facilities which you can use, and you'll never even have time for the Saturday Game of the Week...
Which moves the debate to a local level. NOW has been actively campaigning for women's rights since its establishment in the early 1970s. Its campaigning alone may prove insufficient to prevent the Supreme Court from removing women's right to privacy. Now that we are so close--too close--to actually losing that right, the silent majority must raise its voice in protest to this turn of events...
...more than 44,400 asylum seekers -- and more boat people are pouring in despite the colony's year-old attempt to close its doors. About 20,000 have arrived so far this year. "The problem is that it is an unending problem," explains Fazlul Karim, head of the local office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Hong Kong, he says, is "completely...
...stay away." Eventually Wilentz quit her job as a TIME staff writer to live in Haiti for nearly two years. The end result, The Rainy Season, is a portrait of post- Duvalier Haiti that verges on the Didionesque. Which is to say, it has sharply observed accounts of such local color as voodoo and zombis, and a tone of cool detachment mixed with scorn for the social wreckage spawned by even well-intentioned American meddling. Yet at its narrative best The Rainy Season is the kind of world-class reportage that deserves honor as history's first draft...