Word: racially
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, in the last weeks the HMS office has sent out releases about racial disparities among kidney donation recipients, triggers for Alzheimer's Disease and the cellular mechanisms that pry apart...
...draft of the text, which focuses on race in America, sits stuck in his In box. The topic is one that Clinton cares deeply about and is supremely qualified to examine. Tentatively titled Out of Many, One, the book aims to offer the President's personal vision of future racial and economic justice, and a kind of work plan on how to get there. "The good news is, he really cares enough about it to want to own it," says one of the ghostwriters, Harvard professor Christopher Edley Jr. But that, he adds, is also "the bad news...
...wanted lots of specific policy proposals, which sparked a dispute among staff members over whether the book should therefore be vetted by the full array of official policy committees; the President ruled no. Aides complained that some proposals went too far, such as one for a program to end racial differences in childhood educational achievement that reached far beyond current budget plans. There wasn't even agreement on whether to emphasize the remaining problems or focus on the progress. "The President," says Edley, "will have to decide whether the glass is half empty or half full." That...
...something less than a good musical. McDonald emotes powerfully and sings beautifully as the title character, the voodoo-practicing daughter in a family of mixed-race Creoles, who sets the tragedy in motion when she becomes the lover of a white ship captain and bears him two children. The racial theme--"I was a servant in my father's house," says Marie's brother, describing their white father's rejection of them--is provocative without pontification. And there are fluid and poetic bits of staging, as when Marie casts a voodoo spell on her maid, snipping a ribbon...
...During the question-and-answer period, Lungren was assailed for his use of the word "predator," which an audience member said demonizes the person instead of the crime, and has negative racial overtones...