Word: outlaw
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...song's so shocking is that in postliberal America, black anger is virtually taboo. You won't find it on TV, not on the McLaughlin Group or Crossfire, and certainly not in the placid features of Arsenio Hall or Bernard Shaw. It's been beaten back into the outlaw subcultures of rap and rock, where, precisely because it is taboo, it sells. And the nastier it is, the faster it moves off the shelves. As Ice-T asks in another song on the same album, "Goddamn what a brotha gotta do/ To get a message through/ To the red, white...
...plot against old local autonomy. When Winthrop Rockefeller gave $1.5 million to set up a model integrated school, on condition that local taxes take up the burden after five years, the school was allowed to close when its free run ended. Jeff Davis, after all, had tried to outlaw the education of Negroes, on the grounds that it ruined good field hands without creating intelligent citizens...
...decades of history. At issue is whether President Boris Yeltsin acted legally when he banned the party and seized its assets after last year's failed coup attempt. But the political stakes are higher. The trial will consider the high crimes and misdemeanors attributed to the party and perhaps outlaw, once and for all, the kind of totalitarian system it created...
Baird Professor of History Richard E. Pipes has been appointed by Russia's Constitutional Court to testify as an "official expert" at the current trial to outlaw the Russian Communist Party...
True, the damage would have been more immediate if Roe v. Wade had been overturned, the outcome Bush nominally seeks. That would have outraged pro- choice voters, many of whom supported Bush in 1988 despite his desire to outlaw abortion in most cases. The ardent pro-life faction, an important part of Bush's core constituency, is also disgruntled. It complains that a court controlled by Reagan-Bush appointees has not done away with Roe. Caught between the two groups, Bush had to speak softly. Yes, he approved that part of the court's ruling that allows states to impose...