Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...today speaks to anything, it is to their own genius, strength and amazing grace, not to what Novak seem to believe was American generosity. And what of the not-so-successful blacks, those constituting the majority of the black population whose lives on the bottom rung of America's social and economic ladder are a testament to slavery's continuing legacy? Their predicament stands in answer to Buchanan's observations that because we as a nation today are different from antebellum America, this nation has nothing to repent. The point is that the consequences of slavery persist in plaguing...
White skin in this country is still the most precious of social heirlooms, one which is, by most, unquestionably accepted. But when it comes to the darker side of their inheritance, rhetoric changes to "not me," "not my fault," "not my problem...
Carine M. Williams '00 is a African-American studies and social anthropology concentrator in Leverett House. Her column appears on alternate Wednesdays...
...three different groups represented three distinct approaches for addressing local ecological and social issues. One group designed a park for ecotourism and habitat preservation. The second clustered lakefront development along one lake, Lake Josephine, and encouraged development of housing in converted ranchlands. The remaining group took an integrated approach towards Lake Placid as an ecological community, planning multi-income housing and recreational areas, converting agricultural land uses and altering lake-use patterns...
...quite a success. I reintroduced myself to lots of people I once knew, I met people I recognized but had never been introduced to and I even spoke a bit with some random passers-by. Though it was more of a psychology experiment than a real social situation, it reminded me that most people are very friendly but often have their guard up in public...