Word: apartness
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...failed relationships. The alternate title of "Unlikely," hidden on the back cover, is "How I Lost My Virginity." It tells the story of the late-blooming, sensitive Brown and his mid-twenties relationship with a young woman named Allisyn, who has considerably more sexual experience than he. Brown pulls apart the moments of his first real relationship into short flashes of a few pages. Some are the kind of low-key incidents that stay in our mind long after, like when he gives her a pair of his tube-socks. Other scenes are more dramatic. Each one has title...
...separate-but-equal” laws began on Monday, May 18, 1896, when the Court voted 7 to 1 that Adolph H. Plessy could be set apart in a Louisiana railroad car solely because of his race. It is ironic that, on a Court with only one Southerner and four graduates of Harvard and Yale, only John Marshall Harlan—himself a former slaveowner—dissented with words as evergreen as the cedars of Lebanon: “There is no caste here. Our constitution is color-blind?...
...apart from that Parker and his crew are confident that merely rowing the race that they have trained for all season long will be sufficient to walk away with another Eastern crown...
...likely. "Because we're a small country," he says, "we're very nosy people. If people turn up behaving oddly, we tend to notice." (In 2000, Auckland police said they'd busted a plot to blow up Sydney's nuclear reactor during the Olympic Games. The evidence fell apart and all charges against the suspects, two Afghan taxi drivers, were dropped. A retired Australian intelligence officer familiar with the case puts it down to "police hysteria.") The 40,000-strong Muslim community has "nothing for terrorists to organize," says Paul Buchanan, a former U.S. defense and security consultant who teaches...
...publishes literature commemorating the case. Not far away is the Thurgood Marshall Bridge, namesake of the N.A.A.C.P. special counsel who won the case and later served as a Supreme Court Justice. But other vestiges of that time have been wiped away. Although blacks and whites still live largely apart on opposite sides of town, the city recently elected its first black mayor, James McClinton, and the schools are fully integrated...