Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young black man was killed by police. By the time the pillaging and mob assaults ended, a second person had been killed by police, more than 25 people had been injured and 45 more had been arrested, mainly for looting. The disturbances lasted for three days but were minor compared with Miami's 1980 Liberty City riots, in which 18 people died. Said Police Chief Kenneth Harms: "It is a tragic situation, but not a major circumstance...
...Malvinia and Mr. Twain, in Malvinia's sumptuously appointed bedchamber." Gates, 44, outdistanced feminism long before it was fashionable to do so, taking her themes from headlines. Them (1969) explored the roots of violence by reconstructing the 1967 Detroit race riots. "War, rape, murder and the more colorful minor crimes," she complained then, "evidently fall within the exclusive province of male action." Now a professor at Princeton, after years of teaching in western Ontario, Gates is currently at work on a mystery novel. A book of her essays, The Profane Art, will appear later this year. The author...
Richard Jahnke severely beat his children Deborah and Richard for minor infractions [Dec. 13]. Thus it is not surprising that the children killed their father. Deborah and Richard were reacting in the only way they knew, with violence. This situation was criminal before the murder ever took place...
Indeed, there are missionaries who believe that conversion is fundamentally irrelevant to their true task. Says Father Walbert Buhlmann, the Rome-based mission secretary of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin: "In the past, we had the so-called motive of saving souls. We were convinced that if not baptized, people in the masses would go to hell. Now, thanks be to God, we believe that all people and all religions are already living in the grace and love of God and will be saved by God's mercy...
...study the subject for two years. American youngsters take eight or nine years of basic arithmetic; in most European countries, the same material is covered in two-thirds the time. One-third of the math and science teachers in California high schools did not graduate with even a college minor in either subject...