Word: mutedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every time we observe Columbus Day, we pay homage to this genocidal madman. Fortunately, his bloody, forgotten legacy has begun to surface lately. In 1992, protests drastically muted the celebrations of the 500 year anniversary of his arrival in the Caribbean. Such protests are often jeered as "political correctness." But...
Bouncing back from a Blue Devil scoring chance muted by sophomore goalie Jordan Dupuis, Harvard senior T.J. Carella took action. He struck what might have been intended to be a cross, but what ended up as a shot--and indeed a goal-at an unexpectant Central Connecticut goaltender, who backpedaled...
"I can't think of a more powerful message to kids," says Judy Briscoe, director of the Texas Youth Commission's Office of Delinquency Prevention, "than the originator of the Crips saying how wrong I was." Making street rounds, Sandra Davis, founder of the mediation service Mothers Against Gang Wars...
The first few tracks are rock'n'roll, plain and simple. "How the West Was Won and What it Got Us" has the over-produced slickness of, say, an INXS song; Stipe's voice even has a touch of Michael Hutcheson's throaty howl. Yet "West" succeeds by relying on...
The Games indeed continued in the aftermath of the bombing, with almost 90% attendance rates, but the sense of play--of a profoundly engaging international rivalry and unity at the first fully attended Games in history--had been transformed into something considerably more muted. Alice S. Hawthorne, 44, of Albany...