Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are skeptics. Stephen Roach, chief global economist at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, suspects that e-commerce is being oversold, though he admits it's growing rapidly. "I question if it'll ever be big." He is right when he notes that e-commerce is no more than 1% of the U.S.'s $8.5 trillion economy; in fact, consumer online sales now account for only .2% of total retail. And e-commerce, Roach argues, is hardly on a par with the Industrial Revolution. "This is an intangible cerebral revolution, which is a lot harder to pull...
...supreme irony of fate, the death of a young, innocent boy who probably knew little of hate or history spurred the black community to demand its rights. Stephen, who never tried to wound or even threaten his killers, could have been an example of how to bring change peacefully, but, instead, he is now a symbol for a group determined to destroy and condemn...
Over the five years since his death, Stephen, the boy--Stephen, offering hope--has been forgotten by the masses. His image--a marketable picture of a smiling boy wearing a M*A*S*H shirt and giving his photographers a wave--lives on, reproduced on t-shirts, in the British tabloids, on television and on propaganda posters. It is, however, but the ghost of person--a voodoo doll that, when pricked, creates an automatic yelp from hundreds of protesters...
England's solution lies with those like Stephen, the black children who can still race across the football pitch with white children. During the riot, as I frantically shouted my story above the screams of the protesters to my editor on the other end of the line. I watched a tough, black man with a scarred face and missing eye--wounds from a fight that must have happened years earlier. He carried a large photograph of the smiling Stephen in his M*A*S*H shirt, shouting racist epithets to incite the crowd. I silently compared the two men, Stephen...
...England, set in her ways, is unready to teach her children to see not black and white but the multitude of brilliant colors that surround them. For what has happened, I cannot blame one side or the other; they are both to blame. I can only find the victims: Stephen and his mother, Doreen, and his father, Neville...