Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that goal in mind, the Haiti Communications Project has joined with two organizations, the 500 Years is Enough Coalition, and the Committee of 500 Years of Resistance, to "demystify...[and] bring out the truth about Christopher Columbus' voyage," LaFontant says. The groups will bring speakers and performers to Jamaica Plain on Monday to address slave trade, the annihilation of the native American population and the cultural legacy of colonization...
...such overwhelming support? In addition to being in the right place at the right time last spring, her years of experience in Illinois politics and a charismatic, plain-speaking style, Braun won national celebrity because of her potential to become the first Black woman in the Senate...
...villain of the piece, played with deadly relish by Wes Studi, is given a good motive for his dastardliness, the dignity of his otherness and even allowed a nanosecond of pity for one of his victims. Above all Mann has seen to it that something spooky, suspenseful or just plain action packed happens every five minutes. In the process he has eliminated the last traces of Cooper's high-viscosity prose and sentiments...
...Tribe is just plain better. It's 14th in the nation. (Las Vegas isn't even laying a line down on the game...
...claims Roman Catholic priests beholden to the Vatican conspired to cover up the texts lest they shake the doctrinal foundations of the mother church. The true reasons are more mundane: too few scholars monopolizing too much material, team members' personal problems, shortage of money, political and academic intrigue and plain incompetence...