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...Swain has written, as "defenders of the legitimate civil rights of white people against what they allege are a host of racial double standards." In short, that affirmative action has made whites the most discriminated-against group in the country and that it can only get worse as a tide of immigrants transforms the U.S. from a white nation into a rickety Third World republic. The language white nationalists use to promote their insights is stunningly familiar to anyone who has listened to black nationalists like Louis Farrakhan - but that's not surprising, since the white nationalists appropriated...
Antebellum America was a world of constant low-intensity warfare between abolitionists and slavers in hot pursuit of their "property." The rising tide of escapees led to cross-border raids by Southern slaveholders who were emboldened by federal laws that gave them the right to chase runaways into free states. Hired slave hunters prowled the riverbanks, hoping to catch blacks and drag them south for cash. When no runaways were available, free-black citizens--there were 200,000 in the Northern states by 1860--could be clubbed and hustled across the river into captivity. Pro-slavery Northerners destroyed printing presses...
...author traces the genesis of the bomb plot to a tide of anti-Muslim violence that swept India in the early 1990s with the rise of the Hindu national Bharatiya Janata Party, which today leads India's ruling coalition. With remarkable detective work, Zaidi takes us inside the nexus between anti-India Pakistani secret agents and South Asia's Muslim underworld, which later proved so useful to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda. We follow the conspiracy from a single telephone call that was made to Mafia supremo Dawood Ibrahim by his handlers in the Pakistani secret service...
Intercollegiate No. 25 Patterson turned in another valiant effort against No. 17 Rutherford with the opportunity to put the Crimson ahead 3-1 and turn the tide of the match...
With the EISL Championships still a month away, there is still plenty of time for Harvard to prepare for its next encounter with Princeton. Last year, the Crimson beat the Tigers at H-Y-Ps, but Princeton turned the tide at Easterns, bringing Harvard’s six-year Eastern reign to an abrupt halt...