Word: turner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pushed up Irvine Turner Boulevard, past the vibrant bars and vacant lots, the charged night air began to sound with sharp rifle-like cracks and shrieking sirens. But these weren't the sounds of National Guard guns and police sirens that accompanied Newark's demise for five, hot, summer days in 1967, rather the staccato drum beats of the band were loud enough to set off blaring car alarms in the vehicles we marched beside. Heads poked out of upstairs windows and front doors opened in the public housing townhouses as people paused to watch the commotion pass...
...medalists are chosen by the President, following nominations by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The NEH selects those who "get out of the Ivory Tower and reach large audiences," according to NEH spokesperson Jim Turner. Their activities can include developing educational programs or carrying out meaningful research, he said...
Gates, a best-selling author and director of Harvard's W.E.B Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, "is one of the nation's leading black intellectuals," Turner said. One of his current projects is the completion of Encarta Africana, an encyclopedia of black culture and history that will be published in CD-ROM form in mid-January and in book form next September...
...recent issue of Entertainment Weekly, a book reviewer found the Starr report to be not just a pulp page turner but a haunting allegory. The report symbolizes "the national invasion of our privacy." The moral of its story: what happened to President Clinton "could happen to any of us--our own sex lives on newsstands everywhere...
Yankees... Padres? The 1998 World Series slate is set after San Diego finally finished off the heavily favored Atlanta Braves with a 5-0 victory Wednesday night at Turner Field in Atlanta. It's a matchup few expected. While the high-expectation Yankees are chasing history, the Pods are just chasing legitimacy: San Diego hasn't been to the Series since 1984, when team star Tony Gwynn was just a pup in an ugly brown-and-orange uniform...