Word: quilting
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...election since 1960, race was not an issue. Partly he achieved this by shying away from being cast as the tribune for the poor and blacks. Now he faces the more exalted challenge of acting affirmatively to heal the racial and cultural tensions that have frayed America's social quilt...
...began as a simple remembrance of those who have succumbed to the deadly disease. But the AIDS Memorial Quilt, unfolded in its entirety near the Washington Monument over Columbus Day, has become a vast and stirring memorial to HIV victims. Started in 1987 by the San Francisco-based Names Project, the quilt stretches over 15 acres. It contains 21,000 decorated panels from 29 countries, each bearing the name of an individual who died of AIDS. Altogether it represents 2% of all AIDS victims. Total worldwide deaths from the disease: 501,272, more than a third of them...
...Keck I and, for $72 million more, will soon have Keck II. Publishing magnate Walter Annenberg has the University of Pennsylvania School for Communication named after him ($75 million), though what he got for his generous $50 million gift to the United Negro College Fund was a very nice quilt...
...this adds up to a crazy quilt of ethnic ambition. The task ahead is to ensure that the quilt is not forced into service as a shroud...
...rights Bill Clinton should have felt on top of the world last week after sweeping the last coast-to-coast crazy quilt of six state primaries. The Arkansas Governor eliminated Jerry Brown by winning 48% to 40% in his home state of California, and consequently clinched the Democratic nomination with 366 delegates to spare. Then why was this ordinarily almost cockeyed optimist forcing his victory smile as lamely as a first-time sushi eater? In crucial California, at least, the reason was a climactic revolt against politics as usual that rewarded not Clinton so much as outsider Ross Perot...