Word: murrays
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...personally have become tired of hearing--asI did at the 350th anniversary--Radcliffe referredto as 'little sister' and not much acknowledgmentof the impressive Radcliffe institutes likeBunting, Murray, and Schlesinger," saysSchmertzler. "I think it's belittling...
Cleanup workers have already carted away 1,000 cu. yds. of contaminated soil. Last week a judicial restraining order prohibited the church from building new shelters or occupying existing ones. Said church spokesman Murray Steinman: "Protection of the environment is our No. 1 priority...
...purpose was not to argue about "dogma and doctrine," said A.M.E. pastor Cecil Murray, but to "ask what we can do jointly to help take our community back from drugs and crime." Such meetings, says Khallid Abdul Muhammad, special assistant to Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, "put us into a position where black people are now turning to us for leadership...
Violence against women involves more than rape. According to Murray Arnold Strauss, author ofBehind Closed Doors 16 percent of all American couples report a violent act within the relationship in the last year. Another telling statistic: according to a 1987 report by the Hazelton Foundation, which studies juvenile justice, more than half of men ages 11 to 20 in jail for murder killed the batterer of their mother. And the March of Dimes reported in 1989 that more babies are born with disabilities because their mothers were battered than as a result of the combined effects of all the diseases...
...things white observers often miss: Jesse Jackson is most convincing when he demands "the best of those who live in the worst conditions"; Louis Farrakhan's anti-Semitism appeals to many blacks because they envy the clout of Jews; such artists as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and writer Albert Murray have blended the traditions of Africans, Europeans, Native Americans and Asians into "the rich mulatto textures of American culture." When he sticks to the issues, Crouch is a provocative social analyst. But when he sets out to make his enemies walk the plank, it is Crouch who goes overboard...