Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decade in jail. "You threw it away," Judge Fred Suria told the two-term Democrat today after sentencing him to five years for having sex with an underage campaign worker and for soliciting child pornography. Reynolds had just completed a 40-minute courtroom rant in which he blamed racism and the media for his downfall. Replied Suria: "This case is not about race. This case is not about politics...
...Listening to Children: A Moral Journey with Robert Coles," which premiers tonight at 9 p.m. on WGBH Boston, Channel 2, follows the inner lives of eight American children who are faced with deteriorating families, racism, alcoholism, AIDS, poverty and emotional insecurity...
West said he was angered by the absurdity of racism and white supremacy and was highly critical of today's devolving morality in the business and political worlds...
...book's considerable strength lies not so much in what Powell has to say about politics or his service in Washington as in what he says about the forces that shaped his character and thinking: his parents, his early attraction to a military career, his brushes with racism in the South, his two tours of duty in Vietnam. Powell, who wrote the book with historian- biographer Joseph E. Persico, retains a serious but not pompous tone, with frequent flashes of self-deprecating wit. A man fond of maxims, Powell is always looking to learn from mistakes as well as successes...
...that in taking stands on issues, I would quickly alienate one interest group or another and burn off much popularity. And I would certainly not run simply because I saw myself as the "Great Black Hope," providing a role model for African Americans or a symbol to whites of racism overcome. I would enter only because I had a vision for this country. I would enter because I believed I could do a better job than the other candidates of solving the nation's problems. I would not expect or desire to have anything handed to me; I would fight...