Word: rubicons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...felt an obligation to attend Weld Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell's speech last week. A respected scholar and teacher, Bell was about to cross a personal Rubicon, and what he had to say deserved to be heard. Unfortunately, what he said shocked me, for it was utterly repugnant to the very ideals he purports to believe: diversity and equality...
...Yeltsinite radicals. Serious competition for the Communists is still probably a long way off. (Of course, the way events move these days, that could mean several months.) But the principle of real democracy has been established; Gorbachev has dragged his comrades, many of them kicking and screaming, across a Rubicon...