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...word "nigger" indicates how much these black racists are stuck in the past. Almost every social ill in America today having to do with race is blamed on four centuries of oppression. This is Jesse Jackson's favorite rhetorical tool: to talk about 400 years of oppression and how this oppression is so ingrained in our politics and culture that the African-American community needs a helping hand in every form of life to help it overcome this oppression...

Author: By Marriah Star, | Title: Black Racism | 10/6/1995 | See Source »

...think this is a great tool," said Jonathan P. Feeney '97, a council presidential candidate who is outgoing co-chair of the council's Campus Life Committee...

Author: By Andrew A. Green, | Title: First-Years Will Vote Via Internet | 9/30/1995 | See Source »

...Shopping is a useful tool, since the courses are forced upon you," one Eliot junior says. "Packed classes aren't really a big deal, and running out of books is not really a problem...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs and Jonathan A. Lewin, S | Title: Shopping Period: Looking For a Bargain | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

...always was one, Dobrynin insists, though some days it must have been difficult. During the Cuban missile crisis, Moscow told him "absolutely nothing at all" of plans to place the missiles, then made him "an involuntary tool of deceit" by maintaining that they were defensive only. Khrushchev's lack of a fallback plan once the missiles were discovered was a lesson, Dobrynin notes, that was forgotten by his successors when they invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Ignoring warnings from his generals and ambassador, Brezhnev told Dobrynin not to worry: "It'll be over in three to four weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: COLD WAR CONFIDENTIAL | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

...rather a combination of energy, optimism, persistence, a superb field team--known among scientists as the "Hominid Gang"--and an intimate knowledge of his native terrain. He and Mary made many significant finds, notably the fossil of the species they named Homo habilis (handy man), the earliest known tool user. Since the death of Louis in 1972, his unwavering position that Africa was the cradle of humanity has been rewarded with universal acceptance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SECRET OF LEAKEY LUCK | 8/28/1995 | See Source »

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