Word: paper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After protest from 31 LL.M.s, who said the comments were "insulting and racist," Fenno, at the prompting of the paper's editors, apologized, admitting that he was the one who "stunk...
...body president, gifted singer, statewide debate champ and a nearly 4.0 average. Though he was slightly built and wore enormous glasses, Raines was even captain of the football team. "Mr. Everything," the Seattle Times called him when he got a four-year scholarship to Harvard. Five years later, the paper touted the 23-year-old Rhodes scholar as a "super black"--which may help explain why the OMB director bristled the first time his press staff made note of his race in a news release and ordered that it never happen again...
...with defendants, the Justice Department has for months been providing the attorneys in various cases with the interviews it has conducted. Last week accusations based on these interviews were leaked to the press. Lab personnel were quoted as saying that McVeigh's black jeans were stuffed in a brown paper sack instead of a sealed, plastic evidence bag and that a shipment of bomb-truck fragments arrived in a "mess." But these raw interviews may not become part of the report, because some of the complaints have been refuted...
...annual interest payment would amount to $3,552. The note would rise to more than $106,000 in value at the end of 1998 and pay about $3,655 in interest. The trade-off is a lower coupon: last week's paper carried an initial interest rate of 3.45%, compared with 6.6% for a similar non-inflation-adjusted Treasury note...
Badu, whose original name was Erykah Wright (she gave herself the surname in homage to scat music), was born and raised in Dallas (she now lives in Brooklyn, New York). She studied theater at Louisiana's Grambling State University but, after deciding that "a degree is a piece of paper," left to pursue a music career. Kedar Massenburg, a 32-year-old record-company executive, heard Badu's demo tape and offered to sign her to his fledgling label, Kedar Entertainment. Says Badu: "I had several offers, but I went with him because he was young, black, very smart...