Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...black person in the world, but as long as you are constantly forced to view your wealth, education or success in the context of your socially-constructed blackness, substantial progress has yet to be made against racism and white supremacy. As Malcolm X put it, "You just can't stab a man in the back nine inches, pull the knife out three inches, and call that progress...
Drinking ameliorates the unpleasantness, at least momentarily, by mushing our minds and allowing us to forget about all of our schoolwork and responsibilities and at least take a stab at enjoying the prime years of our life. For many people, remaining happy in such a cold and dark climate is a challenge. There is a reason the Russians are famous for drinking so much vodka. Drinking warms a body and helps a mind forget the cruelties of nature...
...rewinds the week that was, CP takes a stab at profundity and likens it to Generation X: it lacked a defining moment. But behind each member of this week's event plurality lurks quite a good history. Here's a cinema trifecta of great movies that will make you smarter to boot. Watch and learn, and on Monday pretend you read it all in the Wall Street Journal...
...great equalizer, providing all people everywhere with access to the same knowledge, this laudable--if lofty--vision of the Internet begs serious consideration of the laws of access and privacy on the Web. A smart and pointed cartoon in the Dec. 15 issue of The New Yorker takes a stab at the anonymity and freedom of the Internet. The cartoon depicts a big dog who sits at a desk in front of a computer telling a smaller dog: "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog, and nobody knows...
...Jones may solve part of that strategic problem by taking a second stab at television, another distribution outlet where it has fared badly. The company is expected to announce a deal this week with CNBC under which it would provide Dow Jones' business news to the CNBC and MSNBC cable channels. Earlier this year, Dow Jones launched WBIS+ in New York City with ITT. But ITT forced a sale of the station after that company became the target of a hostile takeover by Hilton Hotels. "Our New York television adventure can only be described as a detour," says Dow Jones...