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Because much of that increase reflects the daily shooting spree in the nation's inner cities, the fear of crime also cuts across class and racial lines. Republican whip Newt Gingrich may find a receptive audience when he talks about wanting to build stockades on military bases to house prisoners, but so does Jesse Jackson when he urges African Americans to examine the cost $ of black-on-black violence. One day after a group of teenage boys sprayed bullets down the halls of Dunbar High School, in a mostly black neighborhood of Washington, visiting Vice President Al Gore was confronted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Lock 'Em Up!?And Throw Away the Key | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

...thrilled by this magnificent gift to the FAS. Whip Jones has given us a wonderful injection that will help to secure our future and the quality of teaching and scholarship in the Faculty," said FAS Dean Jeremy R. Knowles...

Author: By Rachel I. Wilson, | Title: Sale of Ski Company Nets $18M | 1/14/1994 | See Source »

...ever since he first sounded it in 1991: "I say it quite plainly -- when I come to power, there will be a dictatorship." More recently he has added, "You cannot rule by waving a chocolate bar in front of those you're trying to rule. Or brandish only a whip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Farce to Be Reckoned With | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

...Because it is a happy season, a season for exchanging gifts, (even if that gift happens to be you having whipped cream licked off your face by a whip-wielding, handcuff-happy stranger dressed in black leather--an example of one from Kirkland House Secret Santa) a season that, political correctness aside, will, to the average foreign student, always be the "Christmas Season...

Author: By Ishaan Seth, | Title: Christmastime | 12/15/1993 | See Source »

Current attention to immigration has reached levels of panic not seen since the turn of the century. To whip up this panic, modern race talk must be revised downward into obscurity and nonsense if antiblack hostility is to remain the drug of choice, giving headlines their kick. PATTERNS OF IMMIGRATION FOLLOWED BY WHITE FLIGHT, screams the Star-Ledger in Newark. The message we are meant to get is that disorderly newcomers are dangerous to stable (white) residents. Stability is white. Disorder is black. Nowhere do we learn what stable middle-class blacks think or do to cope with the "breaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Backs of Blacks | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

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