Word: question
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...outlawed in 1960, but never mounted a significant threat to the government in either guise. Today the exiled A.N.C. is looking to change its fortunes. In collaboration with the new domestic antiapartheid coalition, called the Mass Democratic Movement, it has issued a proposal for peace talks with Pretoria. "The question of a negotiated settlement," said Thabo Mbeki, 47, the heir apparent to the A.N.C.'s ailing President Oliver Tambo, 71, "is very much on the agenda...
...willingness by courts, where drugs are concerned, to permit searches they might otherwise disallow. In recent years, for example, the Supreme Court has allowed expanded use of so-called drug-courier profiles -- descriptions of a smuggler's characteristic behavior and appearance -- as a basis upon which to stop and question suspects, despite complaints that such profiles give police license to stop blacks and Hispanics. It has also upheld the right of police to inspect a drug suspect's garbage without a warrant. "There is a sense that what they're dealing with is the rights of drug dealers," says UCLA...
...LADY IN QUESTION. What is the alleged pleasure of a drag show? If the leading "lady" is unconvincing, it's gross. If he's too convincing, there's no coy guessing game. And if he's just campy enough, the joke is over in five minutes. Alas, this off-Broadway farce lasts two hours...
Cambridge cleared its officers of harassment, calling their action "professional and appropriate," and the question clearly became, appropriate for whom? For which race? For the 500 galvanized into protest that week, the answer was clear, as it was for Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III and University Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner, who apologized to the students and appealed to Cambridge and the police. But again, the police have not responded...
Again, the question turns on the problem of whether a system geared toward those who have long been in the country essentially discriminates against a people who by law could not emigrate freely into the U.S. before the 1960s. And who decides on "diversity," such as exemplified by athletic ability...