Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days ago the wacky-haired mogul of boxing promotion gave a rousing talk at Harvard Law School in which he urged his audience to "make a difference" in doing away with racism...
Flamboyant boxing promoter Don King yesterday credited the U.S. Constitution for his success and urged Harvard Law School students to "make a difference" in doing away with racism...
...said racism has held black people back, but the Constitution has allowed him to go forward...
Others are less charitable. "Everybody knew that there were serious problems of racism in the Harvard University Police Department, but I think that Margaret Marshall played down those problems in the interests of administrative harmony," said Harvey A. Silverglate, a Boston lawyer who has represented two Harvard students in legal actions against the University...
...parents, Sharon and Thomas Leyden Sr., who say they raised their son to abhor racism, were horrified by his transformation. But when Sharon confronted him, she says, "it didn't work at all." They finally agreed he would not talk about "those things" at her house or bring his thuggish friends through her door. "He would just be my son," Sharon says. "I told him I believed people always come back to what they really are inside. And I knew what he was inside, and that he would be back...