Word: panacea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Circus is coming to Cambridge on Monday, and Carebears are the main attraction. Michael Lerner, editor of the liberal-Jewish Tikkun magazine, and Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel West are scheduled to bring their travelling show to MIT's Kresge Auditorium. The message? A millenial panacea for the Black-Jewish divide entitled "Let the Healing Begin...
...editorial quietly intends to deflect the international issues at hand between the U.S. and China to matters of "internal affairs," both Chinese and American. Certainly, to point out the U.S.'s inequalities (which we can expect to be exacerbated in the fallout of the Newtonian Congress) is no panacea for China's woeful inability to understand democracy, and Tong's choice to ignore China's growing social problems (guns and crime, a floating workforce of over 100 million, IOU's to farmers, severe poverty) is obvious...
...capital punishment. Alluding to his time as Arkansas attorney general, Clinton recently cited as an example of big, bad government the fact that federal law extended the appeals process and prevented the efficient execution of criminals. Rather than arguing against those who are prescribing capital punishment as a panacea for our woes, Clinton rushes to beat them to the switch...
...FALSE PANACEA: To Gingrich, and to Republicans generally, the more power left in state hands the better. State Governors, said Gingrich approvingly in his example, urge Washington to "send welfare back home," where they will "get people into work, and it will be dramatically less expensive...
While Schacter's research is not a college student's panacea, colleagues say that they are excited about its significance...