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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What Harvard needs to realize is that this isa national issue," said second-year student LindaJ. Singer, a CCR member. "It's something that willbe discussed across the country...

Author: By John G. Knepper, | Title: Law Dean Clark Rejects Jackson Offer to Mediate | 5/9/1990 | See Source »

...Singer said Clark's rejection of Jackson's helpreflected poorly upon the dean's commitment todiversity and communication...

Author: By John G. Knepper, | Title: Law Dean Clark Rejects Jackson Offer to Mediate | 5/9/1990 | See Source »

Whatever heavy metal can do to provoke censure, rap can outdo. Whereas metal is mostly suggestive, this urban-black music is often politically or sexually explicit. N.W.A. (Niggers With Attitude) won an admonishing letter from the FBI for their song FTha Police, in which the singer warns the ghetto's occupying force: "Ice Cube will swarm/ On any m f in a blue uniform . . ./ A young nigger on the warpath,/ And when I finish it's gonna be a bloodbath." Another group, Public Enemy, has been charged with anti-Semitism in their lyrics and statements to the press. But their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: X Rated | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

...group is declared obscene. Comics get condemned by pressure groups. Serious movies garner X ratings. A Cardinal of the church blames a rock singer for teen suicides. In a four-letter world, what's a citizen to do? See it in perspective, and take it in stride. Another view: Entertainers should censor themselves before the state does it for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page:May 7, 1990 | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

...fictional Zenith, George Babbitt brags about boosterism. In Boston, a Tappet brother asks, "Does the transmission go clunk before or after you let in the clutch?" In Paris, Papa Wemba recalls his days as Zaire's most popular folk singer. And in New Orleans, Dr. John bellows the blues from the stage of the Colt 38 Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: National Public Radio: Beyond Headlines and Haydn | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

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