Word: tribe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHAT little plot Hair has centers around the question of whether head hippie Claude is more afraid of burning his draft card or of taking the path of least resistance and getting killed in Viet Nam. Meantime, the rest of his "tribe" tunes in turns on and drops out in an effort to free themselves from the hypocrisy of authority...
...coming to bat: the veteran catcher on his last legs (Tom Berenger), the Willie Mays wanna-be (Wesley Snipes), the pampered third baseman (Corbin Bernsen). And on the mound, a fastballer (Charlie Sheen) with control problems on and off the field. With this gang, in this comic fantasy, the Tribe can't lose...
...nothing without the caribou. "Ever since they are little, Gwich'in are hungry for caribou," says the chief, speaking of a hunger that is more than a physical appetite. "If there are no caribou, people will not want to live here anymore." It is for this reason that tribe members oppose oil development. Caribou will not calve near rigs or pipelines, they argue. "Oil does not combine with living things," says Tritt...
Vacation Watch: Law School professors were southward-bound this month. Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe '62, who headed the faculty dean search committee, was sunning in Mexico when the appointment of Professor of Law Robert C. Clark was revealed. This month, Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell is in his third week of a Jamaican holiday...
...When the tribe's 88-member council voted to place him on indefinite leave with pay, MacDonald got himself reinstated by appealing to a Navajo tribal judge, who happens to be his brother-in-law. But last week the tribe's supreme court challenged the reinstatement. A new judge will hear MacDonald's latest appeal. Says Navajo Peterson Zah, a MacDonald rival and former tribal chief: "MacDonald has let the Navajo people down...