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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Still, it's not something that any country can easily walk away from - not even a Bush administration that has made a habit of being the party pooper in international forums. There's a political cost, too, in being seen to duck a discussion of racism. Instead, the U.S. and some of its European allies are looking to make the menu more palatable. They want to expunge the two most controversial items: discussions of reparations for slavery and colonialism, and of Zionism as racism. Washington has warned that if those topics are still on the agenda come conference time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's a Racist? Can a UN Conference Decide? | 8/1/2001 | See Source »

...perpetual Career Day intended to help him better understand his constituents, Graham began sampling various jobs in 1974 while a Florida state legislator. Since then, he has spent a day a month working such jobs as teacher, Winn-Dixie bag boy, construction worker (see left) and horse-stable pooper scooper ("I kept the ring clear, so that people weren't odoriferously impacted," he reports). For his gig as a US Airways steward, Graham is boning up on his safety speech and his mixed drinks. "Of course, we'll be encouraging everyone to drink orange juice," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 15, 2001 | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

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