Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President." Bob Dole and Dick Gephardt had just won the Iowa caucuses (remember them?) and had every reason to expect a surge that would carry them to their nominations. But the glow did not survive Super Tuesday, and last week they bowed to the inevitable and quit the race. More than 3,000 reporters covered the Iowa campaign. In the end it turned out to be less important than the Michigan Democratic caucuses, for which nary an exit poll was taken. Even Iowa's runners-up have done poorly: Pat Robertson and Paul Simon are likely to be the next...
Gephardt's last deal. Dick Gephardt had a problem. By dropping out of the race, he would lose the right to name a number of Missouri's at-large delegates who are still to be selected. Instead, Jackson (the runner-up in Missouri) would get to pick them. But Gephardt, now planning to run for re- election to the House, wanted to reward home-state supporters with convention seats. So he called Jackson and asked for the right to name Missouri's at- large delegates in return for helping Jackson with delegate slates in South Dakota and Texas. Jackson magnanimously...
From its headquarters in the Zambian capital of Lusaka, officials of the outlawed A.N.C. charged that the South African government was behind the murder of September, a "colored" (mixed race) native of Cape Town and longtime political activist. Her killing, said A.N.C. Spokesman Tom Sebina, was part of a "new campaign by South African death squads." In Paris French leftists organized a parade of 5,000 marchers in September's honor and led a window-shattering attack on Pretoria's tourist office...
...from Plato, the Bible, St. Augustine, Machiavelli, Rousseau and Marx. Next year Stanford's Western Culture Program will be formally replaced by CIV. All freshmen will read works "from at least one" non-European source chosen by the professor, who is required to give "substantial attention to issues of race, gender and class...
...enemy of a nation that much of the world is trying to court. Undeterred, the Dalai Lama has organized 53 Tibetan settlements in India and Nepal and set up institutes to preserve his country's arts, its scriptures and its medical traditions. In recent years he has begun to race around the world like a Buddhist John Paul II -- lecturing at Harvard, meeting the Pope and attending to his flock, be they unlettered peasants or the American actor Richard Gere (a student of Buddhism since 1982). Always inclined to see the good in everything, he feels that exile...