Word: oi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Oi, who is married to Professor of Sociology Andrew G. Walder, said her husband would likely leave Harvard as well, and said they were now looking at offers from other "major research universities...
Last spring, the department recommended for tenure two Associate Professors of Government--Jean C. Oi and Jennifer A. Widner--after seven years of work at the University...
...hand, I was very pleased that the department did strongly recommend that I be granted tenure. I'm obviously very disappointed that the President reversed that recommendation," Oi said...
...immigrants. Both strains crossed the Atlantic, but in the late '80s, propelled in part by youthful embitterment at the recession economy, the Nazi versions of the skinhead strutted through such cultural crossroads as San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury. They attracted immediate attention for their coiffure, dedication to British Oi! music, black Doc Martens boots and a ferocious appetite for violence -- against blacks, gays and Jews. Sometimes the fury turned inward: in August 1987 a California | group nailed its ex-leader to a 6-ft. plank. (He survived.) "To be a skinhead," says one participant from those days, "none...
...called, obscurely, oi music. A better name might be Swasrock: an ugly subgenre influenced by punk and heavy metal -- but glorifying such far-right symbols as the Nazi swastika. The music, played by some 50 bands, provides a bond for Germany's neo-Nazi movement, a suspected source for much of the xenophobic violence that has claimed 17 lives in the past year. In a swift crackdown, German police raided studios, homes and offices, confiscating thousands of records and CDs. Whether anti-Nazi laws were broken remained unclear, since the operation produced no arrests...