Word: tribe
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...part of the Native American Conference this Saturday, Harvard Ed School graduate and former president of the Wampanoag tribal council Russell Peters says that his tribe lost its land at Mashpee on Cape Cod when the Federal government refused to acknowledge it as a tribe...
Legal experts see trouble ahead for set-aside plans and other government- sponsored racial remedies. "It's clear that affirmative-action programs will be harder to justify," concludes Professor Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School. Officials around the country expressed concern over how their plans would fare under the ruling. The National League of Cities found the decision "troubling in what it says about the capacity of states and cities to govern at all in some matters...
...triumphant postwar American power in the world, the Then of the nation's illusions of innocence and virtue, from the more complicated Now that began when the U.S. saw that it was losing a war it should not have been fighting in the first place, when the huge tribe of the young revolted against the nation's elders and authority, and when the nation finished killing its heroes. The old Then meant an American exceptionalism, the divine dispensation that the nation thought it enjoyed in the world. In 1968 the American exceptionalism perished, but it was reborn in a generational...
Anthropologists speak of the origin myths of tribes. The children of the post-World War II baby boom, 76 million of them, were -- and in ways, still are -- an enormous tribe. Nineteen sixty-eight represents the origin myth of that tribe...
...KING OF THE FIELDS by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $18.95). In his first novel in five years, the Nobel laureate, 84, portrays a remote tribe in a faraway past enduring the shocks of progress and civilization...