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Things aren't always easy for white writers on race. Sift through the confused, conflicting feelings that most white Americans today harbor on race-charged issues--from affirmative action to interracial marriage, not to mention the Million Man March and O.J.--and try to make some sense of them. Don't stray too far right; you'll invite charges of callousness. But don't huddle too close to the left; you'll be criticized for rabble rousing. And along the way, be mindful of readers' easy exhaustion with the whole subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHITE MEN'S BURDEN: TIRED IDEAS | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

SANTA MONICA, Calif.: After four and a half mind-numbing days of accusation and counter-accusation, summations in the O.J. Simpson civil trial ended Tuesday, leaving a weary jury to sift through a tangled evidence pile of hair fibers, bloody gloves and Bruno Magli shoes. Unlike the rules of a criminal trial, where any reasonable doubt precludes jurors from finding a defendant guilty, in the civil trial jurors can find Simpson guilty if they decide that he probably murdered his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her companion, Ronald Goldman. Only nine of the 12 jurors need agree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: O.J.: It's Almost Over | 1/28/1997 | See Source »

...friends. If I need a female role model in my field, I can always go back and visit my high school economics teacher. Otherwise, I will keep doing what I have always done here at college: enjoying all that my male professors have to offer while making sure I sift through the course catalog to find a class taught by a woman, and pushing for more women faculty hiring. I am mostly optimistic--I do always, and will always, have wonderful role models here who are men, and I know that slowly but surely the faculty will become more than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beyond Madonna and Thelma | 1/13/1997 | See Source »

...gotten a lot of student input," said Coffey. "The administration wants us to sift through student responses...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta and Baratunde R. Thurston, S | Title: College Hopes To Revitalize Loker Commons | 11/23/1996 | See Source »

Before skating at Maximus, athletes need to first sift your way through a nine-page waiver form that absolves Maximum and its owners, Ram Hannan and Doug Moore, from responsibility for "death, illness or disease, or damage to myself...

Author: By Shira A. Springer, | Title: DESTINATION | 10/22/1996 | See Source »

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