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What matters most is the unrest that prompted the lawsuit in the first place. The message carried by Carver embodies a warning that every presidential hopeful would do well to heed. Something has come unfastened in the West, and everybody has guns. "By circling the wagons, they see it's just them against the world," says the Cato Institute's Hess. He fears, he says, that the owner of some marginal ranch pushed to the brink by changing rules may turn desperate. "Someone's going to carry a gun, someone's going to shoot, someone's going to bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNREST IN THE WEST: NEVADA'S NYE COUNTY | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

...head of the Nation of Islam, has called for fellow African-Americans to join him in our nation's capital in order to protest the policies of the United States government. A promotional pamphlet promises, "The whole world will be watching to see if this march will produce civil unrest and strife. The world of investors will be watching to see if it is safe to invest in the economy of America. We say to the world you will be witnessing the power of Allah's (God's) Own Hand on the children of ex-slaves whose mind...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: A Very Different March | 10/16/1995 | See Source »

...CARTER IS NOT SOME-one who finds aneasy place to live and stays there. During thefall of her senior year, she took a semesterabroad in Africa, starting off in Sierra Leone andmoving, because of political unrest, to Kenya.Adjusting to a new culture, especially one inwhich she says many biracial women were assumed tobe prostitutes, was challenging for Carter. Butshe grew up a lot. "I became a lot less shy and alot more independent...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, | Title: Tracey L. Carter can barely sit still. She leans backwards over the Chair then swings back up to answer my questions. | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

...merging of Harvard and Radcliffe had begun during March of 1969 but had stalled during the general campus unrest later that spring...

Author: By Victoria E.M. Cain, | Title: Coed Dorms: First Stage of the Merger | 6/6/1995 | See Source »

...everyone would envy Chirac his prize, however. France today is a country suffering from severe social unrest and political alienation. The unemployment rate is 12.2% -- one of the highest of any major industrialized nation. The army of 3.3 million jobless contributes to a growing gap between the rich and poor, stirs antagonism against the large immigrant community and sustains an underlying sense of insecurity and fear of the future. During the campaign thousands of striking workers, students, homeless people and aids activists jammed the streets of Paris and other large cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAN OF THE HOUR, AT LAST | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

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