Word: racism
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...contacted members of the NAACP," she said. "Neither John nor I have made any overt claims of racism...
...injunction was denied, but the charges of racism were not a complete surprise at the Department of Agriculture--even to Shirley Watkins, the USDA Under Secretary of Food and Nutrition, who happens to be black. In recent years, food activists with a reasonable point to make--whether it be the fatty meals in restaurants, the dangers of genetically modified crops or the risks of a milk-rich diet--have increasingly relied on rhetorical bomb throwing to make sure they get heard. Or, in the case of one antibiotech group, real fire bombs...
...while allegations of favoritism - and even racism - emerge as people compare the two men's cases, TIME Washington correspondent Massimo Calabresi says there is little doubt who committed the more egregious transgression. "Wen Ho Lee downloaded classified information from a secure computer to an insecure computer - while Deutch simply composed documents on an insecure computer and never transferred any classified information...
...recovers what was shocking in art we have (mostly) grown comfortable with. The enlightening Manet episode unpacks 19th century French society to show how a nude courtesan roiled the salons by staring frankly at the viewer; the Finn segment examines a contemporary push to pull the book (charged with racism) from a school. The series comes down on the side of art, natch, but deserves credit for arguing, not assuming, its point...
...tycoons have become more concerned with how they'll be thought of once their working days are behind them. By contrast, Henry Ford, the symbol of innovation and entrepreneurship in the first half of the American Century, waited until his 70s to become charitable. Ford, accused of both racism and anti-unionism, was unable to improve his public image during his lifetime. It appears Gates doesn't want to go down the same road...