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...were suspected of planting the bomb. In fact, one "expert," Steven Emerson, who recently visited Harvard and gave a talk about the dangers of Islam in America, was quoted as saying, "This was done with the intent to inflict as many casualties as possible. That is a Middle Eastern trait." It wasn't long before these vicious stereotypes were proven wrong, once the real criminal, an American Neo-Nazi, was exposed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS | 11/24/1999 | See Source »

Violence is not the only negative trait that runs in some stepfamilies, say experts. "We know that there's less of a sexual taboo in stepfamilies because you don't have the biological connection," says Dr. James H. Bray, author of Stepfamilies: Love, Marriage and Parenting in the First Decade. As a result, says Bray, "if a woman is about to remarry, she really ought to get to know her spouse and know some of her potential spouse's family history, because we know that sexual and physical abuse tends to run in families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Dangerous Steps | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...looks for people who are not only politically active, but who are passionate about a certain issue, officials say. This trait is important because Fellow usually run small study groups...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: K-School Seeks a Few Good Losers | 10/26/1999 | See Source »

...bombing] was done with the intent to inflict as many casualties as possible. That's a Middle Eastern trait," he told CBS News in April...

Author: By Rohit Goel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Islamic Students, Journalist Spar Over Terrorism | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...species of the Y2Kare bug. Just as middle-management yupsters lashed out against the oppressive ineffectuality of upper management, so too did young up-and-comer twentysomethings feel oppressed by the IKEA angst of their yuppie superiors. Darwin would have had a field day-suddenly angst is an inheritable trait, passed on from one generation of the urbanite species to the next. Unlike their forefather-oppressors, however, the post-yuppies had no outlet for their angst. They couldn't claim a cultural disaffectedness of their own, as Seinfeld and thirtysomething had been there and done that, and made it clear...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Undoing Yuppiedom | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

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