Word: tribe
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Last night, Walsh sponsored an order making direct reference to one of the petitions most prominent signers, Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe '62. Tribe, one of the foremost experts on the Constitution, last week tried to distance himself from the petition, saying he did not know of the racial issues surrounding the petition when he signed it. He said he would cooperate with any investigation of the matter...
Rondonia's native Indians have fared worse than the settlers. Swept over by the land rush, one tribe, the Nambiquara, lost half its population to violent clashes with the immigrants and newly introduced diseases like measles. Jason Clay, director of research for Cultural Survival, an advocacy organization for the Indians, says that when the Nambiquara were relocated as part of Polonoroeste, the move severed an intimate connection, forged over generations, to the foods and medicines of their traditional lands. That deprived them of their livelihood and posterity of a wealth of information about the riches of the forest. Says Clay...
...framework of Friedman's analysis of the Middle East is Assad's destruction of Hama, which the author feels characterize the three conflicting elements that have caused conflict in the Middle East: tribe-like loyalty, authoritarianism and modern nation-state building...
Dear Professor Tribe...
...knew my peers at Harvard would realize that patriotism means little when it is compulsory. And, above all, I knew Laurence Tribe would stand up for what was right...