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...Monday during the school year, Moses leaves his home in Cambridge, Mass., and flies?to Jackson, Miss., to teach algebra at all-black Lanier High School. Moses, 66,?is determined to make mathematical literacy as much a battle cry as voting rights were 40 years ago. He wants to overthrow what he calls "sharecropper education" by helping all students master algebra, preferably by the eighth grade, so they are ready to take college-prep math courses in high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radical Equations | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...That appears to be a significant shift. After all, President Kostunica showed little enthusiasm for sending Milosevic to the Hague in the months that followed his overthrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Economic Pressure Forced Milosevic Handover' | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...radical Egyptian Islamists in Afghanistan, Bin Laden found himself in conflict with the pro-Western regime in his native Saudi Arabia. The Gulf War proved to be his breaking point with the Saudi royal family. Driven by a desire to expel the U.S. from the Gulf region and overthrow a royal family he denounced as corrupt apostates, he turned his fire increasingly against America. The World Trade Center bombers may have been motivated by similar concerns - and they may have been inspired by some of the same militant teachings of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman - but the two don't appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bin Laden Rides Again: Myth vs. Reality | 6/20/2001 | See Source »

...Monday during the school year, Moses leaves his home in Cambridge, Mass., and flies to Jackson, Miss., to teach algebra at all-black Lanier High School. Moses, 66, is determined to make mathematical literacy as much a battle cry as voting rights were 40 years ago. He wants to overthrow what he calls "sharecropper education" by helping all students master algebra, preferably by the eighth grade, so they are ready to take college-prep math courses in high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Community Activism: MATH LITERACY: Radical Equations | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...became more focused on the electoral process and less on the ‘Overthrow,’” Osirim says...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radicalism Not the Spirit of '76 | 6/5/2001 | See Source »

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