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...question is, will we ever get rid of racism? I think not. We are stuck in the tradition, passed down to us by our parents, of judging other people by their color. Try as we might, we cannot destroy the fact that, as humans, we make instantaneous judgments based on our initial impressions of others. Martin Luther King's "Dream" is an ideal, but an ideal that will never be reached, at least not until we destroy the background prejudices that pervade our subconscious...
While these tales provide the most sensational illustrations of why reform of the U.N. system is urgently needed, they are not necessarily the most telling. It is true that "the U.N. is often used as a dumping ground for bureaucrats whom national governments want to get rid of," in the words of Said el-Naggar, an Egyptian who was formerly deputy director of research at the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development. But less gossipy flaws have been at least as damaging to the U.N.'s effectiveness and standing: bureaucratic confusion, duplication of effort, wasteful spending and lack of coordination...
...PROSECUTION HAD PROBLEMS. Some incongruities were never straightened out in the 16 months of investigation and trial. Why wasn't there more blood in the Bronco? How did Simpson, if he committed the murders, manage to get rid of the clothes and weapon so fast? All that might be explained if Simpson had had an accomplice. Both the cops and the D.A.s were convinced, and still are, that Simpson, though he committed the murders himself, had some assistance. Soon after the crimes, a member of the prosecution team told TIME: "There was a clean-up. He had help...
...want to be known as someone with the ideas on how to move everybody forward. We have to ask how policies will increase productivity and how they will increase jobs," Tierney said. "I want to give people a reason to vote and to get rid of the feeling that what they do won't matter...
...hard way to go into the semester. In one of my classes there was one hundred pages of reading, but I couldn't get the sourcebook," she adds. "But it's worth it because it gets rid of all the paperwork, and add-drop forms, there would otherwise...