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Tucker, who is a Crimson editor, said Yom Kippur is one of the most widely observed of all Jewish holidays. Jews commemorate Yom Kippur with a full day of prayer while they refrain from eating and drinking...
...gifted with second-sight in this American world--a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world ... One ever feels his twoness,--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings ." Will DuBois' famous refrain--"the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line"--be just as valid in the twenty-first? I like to doubt...
...pilot, and that he had instructed the regional military commander that O'Grady should be protected and, if found, sent immediately to Belgrade, where he would be released. Milosevic told a friend that he had plotted the pilot's exact coordinates for Frasure and instructed local commanders to refrain from shooting at planes sent to the rescue. Frasure sent a flash message to Washington relaying his conversation with the President, but the information remained in diplomatic channels and did not reach U.S. intelligence officials until two days later. By that time, the rescue was about to get under...
...suspects accused of stabbing a man to death last week had told a girlfriend that he identified with the killers in the movie. The news report, said Dole, should send "shivers down the spines of all Americans." Especially those, he said, who have criticized his demands that Hollywood refrain from graphic sex and excessive violence in the entertainment it produces...
...House and Senate hearings, Perry said the military would require 22 weeks toevacuate U.N. peacekeepersusing 1,500 U.S. soldiers stationed nearby. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole said he would offer a binding resolution to limit U.S. troops to that objective, and Perry assured him that the U.S. would refrain from taking sides in the war. ButMark Thompson, TIME Defense correspondent, says taking sides may be necessary if the U.N. is to continue its mission. "If the mission is to provide humanitarian aid, and the Serbs aren't allowing that aid, sooner or later the troops are going to have...