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...Bernstein and fewer reflective editorials in the spirit of A.M. Rosenthal. Do a story, or a series of stories, on HDS. We have heard rumors that the oranges we eat come in boxes labeled "grade C: schools and prisons only." If that is true, it is only too apt. We ask: what crime did we commit to deserve such treatment? And whatever it was, what can we do to atone for it? Matthew Levin Kristine Zaleskas Michael Choi Joseph Dodge Valentin Rodriguez
...change in policy, but you might be finding that officers are much less apt to look the other way," says Johnson...
Even where Smith's lament seemed most apt, it was never entirely true. For much of the 1950s, the civil rights movement gestated in Southern black churches. Most important U.S. publications failed to take much notice. But Flip Schulke persevered by contracting with black-owned Ebony and Jet. With the deployment of troops in Little Rock in 1957 and the rise of civil disobedience, the work of Schulke, Leonard Freed, Dan Weiner and others received wide exposure...
...Yorker for several years after leaving Harvard, and it shows. The End of Nature cultivates the quietly lyrical style that is the magazine's trademark. Nowhere is this background more evident than in the closing of the second chapter when McKibben explains why the "green-house effect" is an apt name for the global warming problem...
Carver compares the standoff between the casinos and the city to the "British army in Belfast," but a metaphor from neocolonial Africa might be more apt. For in a city headed by its first black mayor, with a gambling economy run largely by white accountants and business school graduates, most of the civic tensions are circumscribed by race. Two years ago, a suggestion by Carver that the city's black administrator be replaced by "the best municipal manager" was met at city hall with charges of "Ku Klux Klan" tactics...