Word: taylorism
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...think the allegations were sort of long in coming,” says Kyle G. Taylor, a senior and president of the A.U. Student Government. “To the students, the allegations didn’t seem as a surprise, though they were still disconcerting...
...elections were the first since the former dictator Charles Taylor went into exile in Nigeria...
...Taylor first rose to power as a warlord during Liberia’s bloody civil war in the 1990s. After the war ended in 1996, he defeated Johnson-Sirleaf to become president. He was elected with the campaign slogan, “He killed my ma, he killed my pa. I’ll vote...
Hunt described Johnson-Sirleaf’s image as an anti-Taylor figure as one of the main strengths of her campaign...
...efforts to add his own mark to what is otherwise an amalgam of Rowling and Bible have the desired effect. Raphah, the guardian of the Keruvim, sets the plot in motion when he arrives in Yorkshire from Africa to return the talisman to its rightful owner. Taylor has said in interviews that Raphah was meant to atone for the paucity of black heroes in children’s literature. An admirable goal, but in the novel, anyway, Taylor fails to address the implications of his hero’s origins—even when Demurral takes the step of branding...