Word: travels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crackdown stems from a 1986 change in the tax law that makes all scholarship money applied to room, board, travel or personal expenses taxable...
Faludi's book has set off firecrackers across the political battlefield. Conservatives applaud her when she exposes the intellectual laziness of the mainstream press; liberals cheer when she exposes the hypocrisy of conservatives who put their own children in day care so they can travel around the country telling women to be homemakers. And the press loves covering itself and hearing about its power. Columnist John McLaughlin, no special friend of the women's movement, called Faludi "the best thinker of the year," and the National Book Critics Circle just handed her its prize for nonfiction...
With information like this readily available, there was no excuse for Foundation money to have been anywhere near Conrad Muhammad two weeks ago. This man's job for the past four years has been to travel from campus to campus advocating the separation of races, a doctrine directly in conflict with the Foundation's goals...
...that the alleged culprit has not been arrested, reportedly because the only evidence police have is the word of the victim. Ironically, it was in an effort to help the police gain more evidence that the girl's parents put themselves at odds with the state. After arranging to travel to London for an abortion, the parents asked police whether a tissue sample from the fetus could be used as a "genetic fingerprint" that would positively identify the rapist. The inquiry made its way to Attorney General Harry Whelehan, who judged himself duty-bound to stop the family from breaking...
...ideal temperament for a skater. She trusts her coach, her parents and her program." She has already been bitten by the ice-show bug after a brief tour with a group sponsored by Campbell's soup. "I just got a little taste," she says, "but it was great -- the travel, the crowds, being with other skaters in a noncompetitive atmosphere. Just like a family...